About

A practical view of transformation, built across many roles

I have spent most of my professional life around technology: building it, organizing teams around it, governing it, and helping business leaders make better decisions about it.

My path started in software development and moved through analyst, product owner, architect, development manager, area manager, product manager, and senior IT leadership roles. That gives me a practical view of transformation: strategy only matters when it can survive contact with teams, systems, budgets, and real delivery constraints.

Experience from code to leadership

Because I have worked across technical, organizational, and leadership layers, I can connect business goals, architecture, product, data, and delivery into one practical direction.

In recent years, my work has focused on energy and utilities digitalization, group-wide IT architecture, BI and data services, innovation, and practical AI and data science use cases.

Earlier experience in banking, finance, software products, and engineering management adds another useful perspective: how complex systems, product teams, platforms, and operating models actually work together.

That is why I look at transformation across several layers at once. The technical solution needs to make architectural sense, but priorities, decision rights, trust, communication, and execution capacity matter just as much.

Experience

Enefit

2015-2025

Eesti Energia / Enefit

IT architecture, strategy, data, BI and innovation

Sector
Energy and utilities
Size
approx. 4,900 group employees (2024)
Revenue / result
EUR 1.785bn external revenue (2024)

Based on Eesti Energia / Enefit Group 2024 annual reporting.

I have worked in leadership roles in Estonia's largest energy and utilities company: owning group IT architecture and long-term technology strategy, managing domain and solution architects, steering OT/automation digitalization, data-driven management and decision-support systems, and later the BI platform, group data services, E-Lab, technology research, and practical AI/data science use cases.

Group IT architectureBI platform and data servicesOT and automation digitalizationInnovation and AI/data science prototypesInternational energy sales platform

Swedbank

2007-2012

Swedbank

Electronic channels, CRM and markets IT leadership

Sector
Banking and financial services
Size
international banking group, 4 home markets
Revenue / result
Swedbank AS Estonia net profit EUR 358m (2024)

Estonian unit 2024 result based on public reporting and news.

I was responsible for development and operations across internet banking, CRM, mobile solutions, branch systems, and other electronic channels. I led a department of roughly 70 people across four countries, covering application lifecycle, roadmaps, cooperation, budget, and people management. Key outcomes included the successful Estonian EURO implementation, mobile application launches, and internet bank renewal.

Banking and financeInternet banking, CRM and mobile70 people across 4 countriesLarge-scale changeEstonian EURO implementation

ZeroTurnaround

2012-2014

ZeroTurnaround

Services and operations team leadership

Sector
Software development tools
Size
30-100 employees during the period
Revenue / result
USD 6.5m revenue (2012)

ZeroTurnaround was acquired by Rogue Wave in 2017; JRebel later became part of the Perforce portfolio.

I led a small team responsible for the company's web presence, e-commerce, back-office systems, development and testing environments, and integrations. I was responsible for uptime, risk management, customer data and source code protection, and cloud and physical IT assets. A key outcome was increasing critical service uptime from roughly 95% to 99.95%.

Service reliabilityE-commerce and back-officeDevelopment and test environmentsScaling from startup stage

Raintree

2001-2007

Raintree Systems / Vihmapuu OÜ

Development Manager

Sector
Healthcare and rehabilitation software
Size
estimated 200-400 employees
Revenue / result
estimated annual revenue around USD 130m

Raintree Systems' Estonian development unit operated as Vihmapuu OÜ; current figures are public company-data estimates.

At Vihmapuu OÜ, Raintree Systems' Estonian development unit, I started as software architect and lead developer, then moved into development management. I was responsible for day-to-day software engineering leadership, requirements and specifications, managing architects and engineers, product roadmaps, and cooperation with other departments and customers. Work included redesigning a legacy DOS client-server medical billing system into a modern three-tier product line.

Software developmentSoftware architectureMedical billing product developmentCross-department and customer collaboration

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