About
Hi! I'm kristjan from Estonia 🇪🇪.
At the moment, I live in sunny Portugal 🇵🇹 and work on my business. Occasionally I also write about life. This is what this website is for.
I used to work asa software engineer in the Department of Space Technology of University of Tartu on couple of projects relating to robotic 🤖 operations where I helped to build a mission planning tool for the European Space Agency 🚀 🛰️.
I pour my expertise and individuality into everything I build. I do the best work I can and have a great time while I'm at it.
For a while, I was also a front-end engineer at the Estonian Public Broadcasting. There, among tons of other stuff, I re-vamped the accessibility features of their news portal (the biggest in Estonia) and built front-end components – some of which are still used by thousands of people daily.
But before all that...
After graduating University of Tartu (the best university in Estonia btw) I worked for a while as an associate in a prestegious law firm in Tallinn, Estonia. Determined to become a top tax lawyer, I then went on to continue my studies in Netherlands 🇳🇱 – the hub and oasis of wisdom of anything tax related.
So, I enrolled in Maastricht University and moved to this small city with a population of ~100k. I learned some Mandarin Chinese, picked up an interest in photography, and traveled a bit around Europe. I had many life-changing events and other amazing memories happen to me while living there.
By the time I received my LL.M degree, I began to have doubts if law was what I actually wanted to do in my life. I didn't. 🤨
Somehow I ended up being a translator at the European Parliment in Luxembourg 🇱🇺. Also, around that period I became absolutely obsessed about photography 📸. I was thinking about it 24/7. I lived an breathed this.
I went out to practice taking photos every day, studied many world-famous pictures from the MAGNUM group, read books and articles, and watched videos about photography – street photography to be more specific. I took thousands and thousands of photos. I got a prize 🏆 at a festival and started this blog.
This was an amazing, another life-altering period of my life.
In 2019 I became determined about going to Taiwan 🇹🇼. I knew I had to go there, or I'd die (inside), I don't know why Taiwan, but the urge was very strong and perhaps partly to do with my Chinese language interest.
Indeed, life had a huge surprise planned for me. The Taiwan period was about to have an unbelievably strong impact to my life. It would change the course of my life forever....
When I have time off, I like to read books, write to my journal, take long walks, exercise, travel, and of course – code 👨💻.