Priit Danelson
Senior Backend Engineer at Wise
Estonia
Summary
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Top SchoolPriit Danelson is a Senior Backend Engineer with nine years of experience building and scaling Java-based systems across startups and large tech firms, now working at Wise. He has driven high-impact initiatives at Twilio—leading design, zero-downtime high-volume data migrations, and a messaging data platform—and has deep experience with reactive, event-sourced microservice architectures from his work in online gaming. Comfortable operating across the stack, Priit pairs hands-on coding with CI/CD and platform ownership, mentoring small teams and advocating engineering best practices. His academic background (Master’s in Software Engineering) and international study in Portugal complement a pragmatic approach to long-lived, production-grade systems. A detail that sets him apart is his track record of taking projects from proof-of-concept to operating at scale, minimizing disruption while unlocking growth.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Informatics Engineering, Master’s Degree Informatics Engineering at Universidade de CoimbraMaster’s Degree Software Engineering, Master’s Degree Software Engineering at University of Tartu
Estonian, English
Github Skills (9)
reactive-kafka8
google-cloud-datastore7
java7
spring7
security7
driver7
spring-security5
asynchronous3
opensearch2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
pdanelson/bondora-auto-investor
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:14 commits, 28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
pdanelson/async-datastore-client
Sep 2020 - Aug 2025
A modern and feature-rich Asynchronous Java client for Google Cloud Datastore
Contributions:4 pushes in 5 years
asynchronousfeature-richdatastorecloud-datastoregoogle-cloud
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