Emils Vigants

Emils Vigants

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CEO @ Essential Software | Data Platform Engineer @ GoCardless
Latvia
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  • GoCardless
    Mid-Senior Data Platform Engineer
    GoCardless
    Jul 2025 - Current (1 year)
    I am responsible for ensuring our customer support, data analytics and leadership teams have the most up to date tools and data to make the best informed desicions. Most tasks are carried out on the Google platform using the available technologies like RabbitMQ, Mongo DB, Go or Python.
  • Essential Software Digiture
    Chief Executive Officer
    Essential Software Digiture
    Mar 2025 - Current (1 year 4 months)
    I lead a small agency building custom Stripe integrations and Shopify solutions for B2B businesses. Most of our work comes through word of mouth and long-term client relationships. Recent projects: https://www.kristianalasmane.lv/ https://droneshowstudio.com/ (beta)
  • Swisscom
    Software Engineer
    Swisscom
    Jun 2023 - Jul 2025 (2 years 2 months)
    As a Swisscom DevOps Engineer I am responsible for the full lifecycle of developing customer features - creation, testing, metrics collection and deployment.
  • TietoEVRY in Latvia
    Software Developer
    TietoEVRY in Latvia
    Sep 2021 - Jun 2023 (1 year 10 months)
  • TietoEVRY in Latvia
    Frontend Developer Trainee
    TietoEVRY in Latvia
    Jul 2021 - Sep 2021 (3 months)
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    Brand Promoter
    SIA Partizanas
    Jun 2019 - Mar 2020 (10 months)
    As a brand promoter, I represent, communicate and market any company's brand for the client. I have represented brands like Epson and Pergale.
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  • Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte Riga Technical University
    Bachelor's degree of Natural Sciences in Computer Control and Computer Science, Information Technology
    Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte Riga Technical University
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2024 (5 years)
  • University of Latvia Latvijas Universitāte
    Bachelor's degree of Natural Sciences in Computer Science, Information Technology
    University of Latvia Latvijas Universitāte
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2024 (5 years)
  • Riga Business School
    Bachelor's of Computer Science and Organizational Technologies (Double Degree, IT and Business
    Riga Business School
    Jan 2020 - Dec 2024 (5 years)
    The Bachelor was completed with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence and Data representation.
  • Hauser JrSr High School
    11th grade, Physics/IT
    Hauser JrSr High School
    Jan 2018 - Dec 2019 (2 years)
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    High School Diploma, Computer Science, Business and Commerce
    Jelgava Spidola gymnasium
    Jan 2014 - Dec 2020 (7 years)
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    https://digiture.eu/
    Sep 2025 - Nov 2025 (3 months)
    A website built using a custom backend and React AWS frontend that represents my own business and allows anyone to estimate the cost of their own project.
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    FLEX (Future Leaders Exchange) program alumni 2019
    American Councils
    Jun 2019
    After finishing my exchange year in the US I became a US state department-sponsored program alumni.
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    Maverick Challenge Local round 1st place winner
    Chamber of Commerce at Columbus IN
    Jan 2019
    The Maverick Challenge is a business plan competition where we designed our own business idea and pitched it to a board of judges. In the local round, our team was 1st winning 1500 dollars