Tallinn, Estonia — available for work
Kaarel Õun
Full stack engineer leveraging modern AI workflows to architect, review, and ship production apps at speed. 10 years building scalable web apps - from lightweight marketing sites to large-scale platforms serving millions of assets. TypeScript end-to-end, through my own studio The Typescript Company.
/ stack
daily
- React
- TypeScript
- Bun
- Tanstack Start / Next.js
- Prisma / Drizzle
- Tailwind
- Shadcn UI
ai & workflows
- Claude
- OpenCode
- Vector Search / pgvector
infra & data
- Docker
- Valkey
- GCP / AWS / Hetzner
- Meilisearch
- Kafka
/ selected work
High Mobility — Car Data Visualisation
Interactive dashboard for real-time vehicle telemetry, built for an automotive API platform.
React · TypeScript · GraphQL · Kafka
Targum AI — E-commerce Content Enrichment
E-shops integrated via API to automatically clean, structure, and optimise product data — text, images, metadata — using AI agents. An early exploration of agentic content pipelines.
TypeScript · AI agents · API
Sunly — Business Savings Calculator
Multi-step calculator for Sunly's B2B sales flow — enter your business, see projected savings from switching to solar, leave your details.
TypeScript · React · Tailwind
Scanpix — Baltic Media Portal
The primary photo and video library for journalists across Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. 21M+ assets from AP, AFP, NY Times and others. Built from scratch as lead developer.
React · TypeScript · Laravel Nova
Postimees — New Site & Mobile
New site and mobile experience for Estonia's largest media group — 100k+ daily users, 10x ad speed boost, 2x mobile ad revenue. Helped move them from #2 to #1 most visited news site in the country.
JavaScript · Website & Mobile app
/ experience
2023 –
The Typescript Company (my own company)
Full-stack TypeScript consultancy & development. Clients include Net Group, Outl1ne and others. Current.
2024 – 2025
Net Group via The Typescript Company
Net Group acquired Outl1ne in 2024. Continued work through my own company as an outsourced contractor - one of the largest IT companies in the Baltics.
2017 – 2024
Outl1ne formerly Optimist Digital
Web agency in Tallinn. Lead developer across Scanpix, Postimees, Larsen, GGI, Geenidoonor, High Mobility and more. Mentored junior developers. Acquired by Net Group in 2024.
2016 – 2017
Brainart
Applications for public sector clients including the National Institute for Health Development.
2015 – 2016
MTÜ Loomekoda
Admin platform for a private school with 500+ students.
/ about
Building with AI tools day-to-day - Claude & OpenCode. Following the communities around Theo Browne, ThePrimeagen, TJ DeVries, Adam Elmore, Dax Raad and Fireship - staying close to where the TypeScript ecosystem is heading.
/ education & languages
Tallinn University of Technology
2013 – 2017
Estonian, English
/ get in touch