Siim Viidu — CTO / VP Engineering: From scaleups to enterprise mission critical platforms - strategy to execution. Building secure, reliable products and high-performing organizations.
CTO / VP Engineering: From scaleups to enterprise mission critical platforms - strategy to execution. Building secure, reliable products and high-performing organizations.
Siim Viidu ranks #478 of 14,983 LinkedIn creators in Computer Software, and is a standout voice in Estonia. They have 4.3K followers and published 6 posts in the last 30 days at a 13.9% average engagement rate.
- 4.3K followers
- 6 posts / 30d
- 13.9% avg engagement
- — follower growth / 30d
The roast
Siim has spent 25 years helping hundreds of millions of people connect through Skype, Twilio, and Bolt, yet he still manages to be the only person in the room who can’t get more than four thousand people to listen to him. He is the tech industry’s most overqualified silent partner.
About Siim
Engineering, product and operations executive with software industry and electronic commerce experience of more than 25 years. Proven track record of delivery of software-based services (SaaS) and platforms (PaaS) to hundreds of millions of users in IoT, communications, online games, payments and social networking industries (HiveMQ, Dixa, Twilio, Skype, Playfish, Electronic Arts)
Highlights
- Top 5% in Computer Software — Ranked #97 of 4267 creators
- Top Engager — 13.93% rate · top 5%
- High Impact — 597 avg engagements per post · top 5%
- Top 10% in Estonia — Ranked #1 of 19 creators
Recent posts
Last week, we hosted the Engineering Meetup in Bucharest, bringing together a full house of engineers for technical insights and networking. The evening focused on complex engineering challenges solved at scale: 👉 Semantic search and ranking at Bolt Food: Understanding user intent even with complex queries. 👉 Instant identity verification: Connecting directly to South Africa’s Department of Home Affairs to accelerate verification times 100x. 👉 AI enablement: Practical insights from 18 months of deploying AI tooling across the organisation. These are real engineering insights from the team
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I’ve scaled engineering teams from 30 to 600. To me, AI has just split engineering into 2 two tracks: Track 1: Self-service builders: anyone with a prompt and a deadline. They ship fast and let AI handles most of the complexity. Track 2: System stewards: engineers who take responsibility when AI gets it wrong, handling production failures and maintaining data integrity at scale. The industry is confusing these two tracks and declaring junior engineers dead because of it. That’s the wrong conclusion. Junior engineers are the pipeline for Track 2. You don’t hire a system steward, you grow o
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"I almost didn’t apply because…" That’s one of the prompts women at Bolt answer in our latest Women in Tech video. A career in tech often comes with quiet uncertainties, from feeling not “ready enough” to wondering whether you truly belong. In the video, women at Bolt share honest experiences about learning to take up space anyway, with answers that are funny, uncomfortable, and deeply relatable. 🎬 Watch the video and share your perspective in the comments: What’s something you almost didn’t do because of self-doubt? #womenintech #lifeatbolt
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