Artis Avotins - Personal Page
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Artis Avotins

Full Stack Engineer
Experience: 20+ years of shipping software
Location: Latvia / Remote
Website: New age fun with a vintage feel
Contact: Send me an email
Hamster Dance
💬 About Me
👋 Hi, I'm Artis. Welcome to my website!
I'm a full-stack engineer and have been writing software for a living since 2004, as a lead engineer, an independent consultant and an engineering manager. I like owning things end to end, and I'm at my best on problems that cross layers, from native code on small devices to what the user sees in the browser. I like making expensive things cheap, and I've been building with AI agents since 2023.
🎯 Off-Screen
I'm a father, a hiker, a fisherman, and a petrolhead. My tinkering habit is mostly about taking things apart to see how they work: flashing custom firmware onto cheap microcontrollers and cameras, listening in on Bluetooth sensors around the house, reverse engineering old binaries, and making consumer hardware do things it wasn't shipped for.
Skills
  • Languages
    • TypeScript / JavaScript, Python, C++, Rust, Ruby, SQL
  • Frontend
    • React, WebAssembly, Astro
  • Backend
    • Node.js, Python (asyncio, FastAPI, Django), Rails
  • Media & Protocols
    • WebRTC, MP4, REST, GraphQL, MQTT, BLE, custom TCP
  • Performance
    • ARM NEON / SIMD, streaming and incremental processing, on-device benchmarking
  • Data & Infra
    • PostgreSQL, Redis, Docker, AWS, GitHub Actions
  • Testing
    • Vitest, Jest, Playwright
  • AI
    • Agentic coding, LLM pipelines, on-device models
  • Hardware
    • ESP32 / ESP-IDF, Arduino, Raspberry Pi
Languages

Latvian (native), English (C1)

Contact
Games

I enjoy playing games in my free time. I've built a simple Minesweeper you can play right here as a reward for visiting my page.

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Last updated: September 30, 2026