Illimar Tambek
Senior Software Engineer at Sliptree
Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolIllimar Tambek is a Senior Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building front-end focused web products and back-end systems from Estonia. He blends expertise in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SEO and usability with a track record of shipping robust server-side features—contributing to projects like the Waterline ORM and Laravel core around validation, serialization and query logic. As founder/CTO of Sliptree and senior engineer roles at GoDaddy and Kestrel, he pairs product-minded engineering with hands-on implementation across plugins, localization, and performance-minded UX. Notably, his open-source work spans both UI components (tokenfield, datepicker locales) and deeper API design, reflecting a rare mix of polish on the frontend and attention to data integrity on the backend.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Tallinna Tehnikagümnaasium
English, Estonian, German, Russian
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Github Skills (32)
unit-testing10
javascript10
data-validation10
jquery10
back-end-development10
eloquent10
laravel-mix10
css10
data-serialization10
laravel10
serialization10
php10
localization10
orm10
front-end-development10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
sliptree/bootstrap-tokenfield
Jul 2013 - Sep 2020
A jQuery tag/token input plugin for Twitter's Bootstrap, by the guys from Sliptree
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:227 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Illimar made multiple commits, primarily involving changes to JavaScript and CSS files. The code changes indicate the implementation of features for a tokenfield plugin, including the ability to edit tokens, support for different input sizes, and improved autocomplete functionality. The commits also include the addition of new styles, fixes for cross-browser compatibility, and updates to documentation, signifying work on both functionality and the user interface.
bootstrapjquerytwitter
balderdashy/waterline
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
An adapter-based ORM for Node.js with support for mysql, mongo, postgres, mssql (SQL Server), and more
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Illimar primarily contributed to the core logic of the Waterline ORM, focusing on validation and query functionalities. They abstracted validation into a separate class method and integrated it into multiple query operations (create, update, aggregate, composite), ensuring data integrity. They also enhanced aggregate and composite queries and added a model instance validation method, demonstrating a focus on API design and data handling within the ORM framework. Furthermore, the user implemented features such as allowing the rule values to be set as functions.
microsoft-sql-servermongodbmysqlnodejsorm
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