Experience

Freeport of Riga

• Latvia
• Maritime Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Information Officer

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  Lets digitalize & automate Riga Freeport! From port gate automation to vessel call optimisation and further! 1. Port access permit system integration with GOV & Port terminal systems for maximium single input window for parties involved. 2. Building port perimeter gate automation with person biometrical identification. 3. Port Community System (PCS) as standart. 4. Geographical information systems building for single point of truth for everyone working in port. 5. Get some AI and BI do stuff for you... Show less



inbox.lv

• Latvia
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Project Lead

  • Dec 2016 - Feb 2020

  Leading team of IT people, from UX designers to Ops team, to create new projects and evolve infrastructure with modern CI-CD solutions. Led creation of automated Gitlab code merge request pipeline testing with Selenium tests with large multi component product stack using docker. Stack used: Jira, Invisionapp, Gitlab(CI-CD), Docker, Rabbitmq, PHP, Symfony, Redis, Node, Webpack, React, Elastic(ELK), Selenium, Chronograf, Graylog, Sentry.io, Google Analytics, MySQL, Linux for sure and much more. Translation platform Lokalise.com integration via Gitlab/Lokalise API. One of projects created from scratch XTV.lv- B2B + AVOD project XTV.lv. Using multiple import & export API systems, extensive multi-user/group CMS, video trans-coding pipeline & storage solution. Worked from having only concept together with team of designers, developers and marketing team to launch new product in market. Another one PP.lv - multi-language classifieds site with huge CMS, with classified import engine for mass automatic publishing for corporate customers. Show less



TVNET GRUPA

• Latvia
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CTO

  • 2009 - Dec 2016

  Working in international pan-baltic team within Eesti Media, (Postimees in Estonia & 15min in Lithuania) part of Schibsted media group.Managing all the IT department, office & 2 data-centers. Network infrastructure planning and design - for office, data-centers and public/private cloud.Leading Latvian market news portal Tvnet.lv and related systems architect and project lead.Sub-projects include news sites, user content sites, recipes, classifieds, etc - Apollo.lv, novonews.lv, spoki.lv, sejas.lv, ciklons.lv, receptes.lv, latauto.lv.Systems architect of Online B2B booking system and banner engine automation system.Social network publishing automation using all sort of APIs.Created AVOD video platform for CMS scheduled recordings from DVB, with video trans-coding to support steaming on various platforms and CMS for online video editing & publishing.Stack used: Jira, Invisionapp, Jenkins(CI-CD), PHP, Laravel, Yii, Elastic(ELK), Zabbix, Varnish load balancing, Wowza streaming engine, PostgreSQL, Social APIs, Google Analytics enterprise and much more.Have built high traffic internet platforms that perform. Show less

• Information Technology Manager

  • 2003 - 2009

  Managing OPS team to keep everything online being one of the largest media websites in Latvia.Handling all the IT infrastructure in office and in 2 data-centers.



Grafton Internet

• IT Manager

  • 2002 - Dec 2012

  Managing hosting platform to host clients websites, databases and email. Using Debian Linux, PostgreSQL and Mysql databases, lot of PHP and much more. Managing hosting platform to host clients websites, databases and email. Using Debian Linux, PostgreSQL and Mysql databases, lot of PHP and much more.



Baltic News Service Ltd.

• Estonia
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 1 - 100 Employee

• IT manager

  • 2000 - 2002

  Baltic News Services aka BNS, Alma media group IT infrastructure & services planing and building. Baltic News Services aka BNS, Alma media group IT infrastructure & services planing and building.