Bio

Machine learning engineer and entrepreneur. Co-Founder of Mooncascade, an Estonian based software product development and data science company. Have been working in software industry already for 25+ years. More than 15 of them are related to the Estonian startup scenery, including working in Skype at the time it was in the aggressive growth stage and when the 2.6 billion dollar Ebay-Skype acquisition deal happened: * I am an Estonian C/C++ hacker from 90ties, got my first salary for hacking in 1995 from University of Tartu * I have messed with block-chains (hash-chains based timestamping, audit trails, merkle trees -- all the components of bitcoin blockchains) already 10 years before it was called block-chain (1999-2001) * I have been managing the early development projects that spawned some of the prime Estonian e-government pillar systems * An ex-skype engineer(-ing manager), including killing credit card fraud in Skype with Bayesian based ML (2005 - ten years before the activity was called data science) * Advised the first wave of startup investments that emerged from Skype and Playtech exits * Contributed to the startup-community buildup in participating the founding of Estonian Startup Leaders Club and Garage48 hackathon series. Specialties: Software business and engineering, machine learning (data science, big data, AI, data analytics -- engineering, hacking, pipelines), project management, rapid growth mangement, outsourcing management, software architectures, mobile, embedded, web and desktop platforms and industries, strategies and planning.