Erik Uus
Senior Software Developer Team Lead at National Archives of Estonia
Tartu, Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolErik Uus is a senior software developer and team lead with 14 years building and evolving mission-critical web applications, currently driving the Client Portal (VAU) for the National Archives of Estonia. He specializes in PHP, SQL and JavaScript, writes clean, extensible code informed by Software Craftsmanship principles, and is actively learning Elixir, Phoenix and OTP. Comfortable translating complex, domain-heavy requirements into modular solutions, he designed a highly personalized employee dashboard that models intricate workflows across buildings, roles and order types. Though not formally trained in computer science, he leverages a humanities background to communicate effectively with non-technical stakeholders and break large problems into independently solvable parts. A long-time contributor to the Yii1 ecosystem and author of a Clean Code summary, he blends practical open-source work with deliberate craftsmanship. Based in Tartu, Estonia, he prefers thoughtful, maintainable engineering over quick hacks and focuses on long-lived systems.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
B.Th, Theology/Theological Studies, B.Th, Theology/Theological Studies at Tartu Ülikool
Estonian, English, Russian, German
Github Skills (6)
yii10
php10
refactoring10
widgets10
jquery-plugin1
jquery1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
erikuus/clean-code
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
My summary of the book "Clean Code" by Robert C. Martin
Contributions:80 PRs, 108 pushes, 13 branches in 3 months
cleanrobert
erikuus/vau-api
Mar 2023 - Nov 2025
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 9 months
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