Curriculum Vitae

[Happy face] First name: Lauri
Last name: Võsandi
Location: Estonia, Tallinn
Telephone: +372 53329412
E-mail: lauri [dot] vosandi [at] gmail [dot] com
IRC: lauri@freenode.org
Date of birth: 24th of October 1988
Blog: v6sa.wordpress.com

General computing skills

Operating systems: Estobuntu, Ubuntu, Debian and Gentoo GNU/Linux operating systems, Microsoft Windows operating systems family.
Office tools: OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Office.

Programming skills

Languages: Python, Java, C#, C++, C, PHP
Other languages: Bash, HTML, XML, SQL, JavaScript, JSON, CSS
Libraries and frameworks: Django, jQuery, Qt4
Certificates: Nokia Certified Qt Developer

Free time activities

I have organized many successful Free Software events in Tallinn. I am member of team which develops and uses Estobuntu - a Kubuntu derivative with out-of-box Estonian ID-card support. I have experience building and programming Atmega microprocessor boards.

Work experience

I had my practical training at Indifex while working on Transifex, an open-source translation platform written in Python. The main task involved creating a plugin subsystem for Transifex.

I participated on Google Summer of Code in 2009 with a project related to Maemo. The work resulted in BitTorrent plugin for Canola.

In 2010 I took part of Google Summer of Code again with a Qt4 project. The work is still in progress but a usable version of Transifex Mobile is available in Maemo software repositories.

I am one of the founders of Povi Software OÜ, a company dedicated to Free Software development in Estonia.

Higher education: Estonian IT College (2007-...)

I am studying IT systems development in Estonian IT College. The education combines both IT and telecommunications.

I spent second year studying in Vaasa University of Applied Sciences as exchange student. Elion, EMT, Swedbank and Tallinn city have supported my studies.

High school: Tallinna Reaalkool (2004-2007)

Tallinna Reaalkool (Tallinn Secondary Science School) is a science school with emphasis on math, physics, chemistry. On final exams I scored 93% in math and 91% in physics.

During my studies I wrote research project about Speaker enclosure design and construction in 2006. I participated on the National final of Olympiad of Informatics several times with success.