Eriks Dobelis
Data Team Lead
Latvia
Summary
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Top SchoolEriks Dobelis is a data and technology leader with 12+ years of experience translating complex problems into strategic, operational solutions across finance, aviation, startups and controlled-environment agriculture. Currently leading the data team at DiscoverCars.com after heading data innovation at Aerones and steering technology and data at Industra Bank, he combines hands-on analytics and ML with organisational change and cyber-security awareness. His background spans board-level strategy, teaching, and deep technical contributions — including low-level firmware work for SDRs and security-focused refactors to the Kamene packet tool — showing rare fluency from embedded systems to data platforms. Known for digging beneath surface differences to find common patterns, he pairs academic grounding in MIS with pragmatic delivery of auditable, resilient systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Economics and Business Administration, Bachelor, Economics and Business Administration at Rigas Ekonomikas AugstskolaMaster, Management Information Systems, Master, Management Information Systems at Latvijas UniversitateRīgas komercskola
English, Russian, Latvian, French
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Github Skills (30)
python10
firmware10
c1110
security10
c1710
sys10
packet-analysis10
embedded10
network-security10
user-interface9
spi9
network-protocol9
serial-communication9
packet8
menu8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
phaethon/kamene
Jan 2015 - Aug 2021
Network packet and pcap file crafting/sniffing/manipulation/visualization security tool. Originally forked from scapy in 2015 and providing python3 compatibility since then.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Security Engineer
Back-end Developer & Security EngineerContributions:22 releases, 380 commits, 100 PRs in 6 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Eriks's commits primarily focus on refactoring and improving the functionality of the Kamene tool, a network packet analysis and manipulation tool. The changes involve migrating older functions and methods to the most current versions of Python. Additionally, the commits involve fixing and improving code functionality to address potential security vulnerabilities within the tool's operation.
pcappythonscapysecuritysniffing
df8oe/UHSDR
Apr 2016 - Mar 2018
SDR firmware and bootloader with configuration files for use with Eclipse, EmBitz and Makefile
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:49 commits, 23 PRs, 104 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Eriks primarily focused on firmware development for an SDR (Software-Defined Radio) project. Their contributions involved fixing display issues related to parallel LCDs by correcting initialization checks and modifying SPI read operations. Furthermore, they implemented a low voltage shutdown feature configurable through a menu, incorporating voltage monitoring with color-coded warnings, and also worked on CW (Continuous Wave) keyer functionality. This included integrating character entry via Morse code, displaying entered text, and adding prosigns support.
bootloadereclipsefirmwaremakefile
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