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- System design
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- Realtime systems
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Software Engineer | Digital Artist
I build realtime systems, software platforms, and creative technology tools. 20+ years across software engineering and interactive media.
I'm Kaspars Jaudzems, a software engineer based in Riga, Latvia. I have shipped web and platform products (Yearbook Machine, Open eLMS), scaled MVP-to-production systems for startups (strategy-toolkit, meshled, Cycle Syndicate, Sooqini) and built creative technology tools (triode, vosc, sensor-mapper).
Summary
- 20+ years in software engineering across product platforms and realtime interactive systems.
- Senior engineer with long-running UK/EU remote-hybrid collaborations (Yearbook Machine, Open eLMS).
- Full-stack and systems depth: TypeScript/React, Python/FastAPI, C++/Rust, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB.
- Strong in MVP-to-production delivery, platform feature development, and workflow modernization.
- Specialist in creative/realtime tech: WebGL/Three.js, openFrameworks, OSC, sensor and device-driven systems.
- Also a university lecturer (interactive installation and sound art at RTU Liepāja), bringing clear communication, mentoring, and cross-discipline collaboration.
Skills
Core Languages
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- C++
- Rust
- PHP
- Python
- Java
- Haxe
- mySQL
- PostgreSQL / TimescaleDB
- REST
- HTML/CSS
Creative/Realtime Systems
- openFrameworks
- Processing
- openGL / GLSL / Shaders
- SuperCollider / TidalCycles
- WebAudio API
- WebSockets
- Open Sound Control
- Three.js
- DMX
Selected Projects
Each project below is framed for hiring review: problem, approach, result, and implementation stack.
strategy-toolkit
Demo: st.newnormal.lv
- Problem: Fragmented strategy research workflows reduced iteration speed and reliability.
- Approach: Built a unified toolkit for analysis, backtesting, and validation with reproducible configs and data workflows.
- Result: Enabled repeatable experimentation cycles and faster strategy iteration.
- Stack: Docker, Python, PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB, FastAPI, Next.js (tsx), Websockets, Tailwind.
meshled
- Problem: Interactive lighting setups needed synchronized multi-device control.
- Approach: Architected a shared C++ core, ESP32 firmware (OSC/HTTP), and a React control panel for operator workflows.
- Result: Delivered robust networked control for distributed LED systems in realtime contexts, including asStandalone graph engine for topology, runtime animation, and per-pixel rendering.
- Stack: C++, ESP32, OSC, React.js, openFrameworks.
triode
- Problem: 3D creative coding workflows needed faster live iteration and composability.
- Approach: Built a Hydra-style engine on top of Three.js for rapid, code-first audiovisual exploration.
- Result: Provided a practical foundation for realtime 3D performance tooling.
- Stack: JavaScript, Three.js, WebGL, shaders.
vosc
- Problem: Live coding performance (SuperCollider) required flexible visual OSC-controlled rendering.
- Approach: Developed openFrameworks-based software for realtime 2D/3D visuals with external control via OSC.
- Result: Delivered a reusable VJing toolchain for performance-oriented AV workflows.
- Stack: C++, openFrameworks, OSC, GLSL.
sensor-mapper
github.com/kasparsj/sensor-mapper
- Problem: Heterogeneous sensor signals needed consistent mapping into creative controls.
- Approach: Built configurable mapping logic to transform raw sensor streams into normalized control data for interactive media.
- Result: Reduced setup friction and mapping for sensor-driven installations and performances.
- Stack: React (tsx), Rust (Tauri), OSC, MIDI.
Experience Timeline
Lecturer - Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (RTU Liepāja)
Teach interactive installation and sound art in the New Media Art BA program, covering digital aesthetics, generative composition, signal flow, and live coding.
Senior Software Developer - Yearbook Machine
Developed major platform features for global expansion, redesigned existing flows for better UX, and collaborated across product and engineering teams.
Senior Software Developer - Open eLMS
Led development across four core products and the shared API platform; shipped features using Haxe, React.js, and MUI for education and enterprise learning products.
Digital Artist - Self-employed
Build code-based audiovisual works, interactive installations, and generative systems for festivals, exhibitions, concerts, and new media performances.
Full Stack Developer - Yearbook Machine
Built a new global promotional site, designed an in-house CRM with external service integrations, and maintained multiple production components.
Software Development Contractor - Self-employed
Delivered MVP-to-production systems for startups, mobile apps, museum touchscreen installations, promo sites, and internal backend tools across many UK and some Latvia clients.
Developer - First Intelligence
Developed systems, frameworks, and databases; built in-house technical foundations and delivered client work for Lattelecom, Aldaris, and AD Astra.
Developer - vpod.tv
Built experimental mobile/device web prototypes for a video platform product.
CTO & Co-Founder - Brilliant Art
Co-founded a web design and development company and led product delivery and technical direction.
Contact
Open to software engineering roles and collaborations where interactive technology needs to be reliable, expressive, and production-ready.