Fun Fact: my surname means Silver in my native language. I'm a little silver fox.

• I studied Computer Science at Riga Technical University, graduating with a Bachelor's degree in 2006 and a Master's degree in 2008.
• I worked as a system analyst in various projects between 2008 and 2013.
• I started working in fintech in 2014, and have since worked in customer support, implementations and data analysis roles. I have always done very technical work.
• I moved to the UK following a promotion in 2019 because my employer wanted me to work closer with the development team (Oxford Boyz were awesome and I miss them).
• In 2023 I got hired into an application support role at a company where the support team management had a long-standing conflicts with the development team. I found myself agreeing with the development team too often. When this employment abruptly ended, it was clear that I have outgrown support roles and need to transition into development.
• I had done some coding here and there over the years, but was never given the title. Furthermore, all of my work was proprietary - it belongs to my former employers and I am not legally allowed to show it to anyone, even to prove that I am able to code.
• I have been building out my GitHub portfolio since July 2023 and have taken several programming courses to do so, including Harvard's CS50 Python, CS50 Web and CS50AI, DevOps with Docker and DevOps with Kubernetes by the University of Helsinki, 100 Days of Code Python course by Udemy, Rust course on freeCodeCamp and Software Engineering Bootcamp by Northcoders.
• I am currently looking for open source projects to contribute to and work opportunities in the industry.

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