extery, product engineer2025-now
sole engineer at a €2.5M urban furniture manufacturer. €100k odoo implementation, analytics platform, internal LLM agent in production
markus meresma
builder & ex-founder
three years as founder of a venture-backed edtech startup: two products, €2M raised, 10,000+ users. then a CS degree to become hands-on technical. now shipping production LLM systems as the sole engineer at a manufacturing SME.
work & education
amazon, software engineer intern2025
owned design and launch of an LLM support chatbot in slack, scoped from 4,500+ support messages
king's college london, bsc computer science2024-26
first class honours
estonian defence forces, conscript2023-24
reconnaissance company, one of the most selective units
mentornaut, co-founder & ceo2020-23
estonia's largest tutoring marketplace. €500k pre-seed, €1.5M seed for the AI-tutor pivot, €400k annual GMV, 30,000+ sessions, team of 10, early exit
edinburgh napier university, beng software engineering2019-21
dropped out to build mentornaut
projects
llm reward comparison in RL2026
implicit vs explicit LLM rewards in RL, undergraduate final project
python / sb3 / gymnasium
autoquote2025
agent swarm that scans spec PDFs and drafts odoo quotations, vercel x deepmind hackathon
typescript / ai sdk
press
opinion piece on AI in education2025, delfi
30 under 30, estonian tech2022, ärileht
€200k raise to launch in kenya2021, eu-startups
jumped out of an airplane to pitch my startup2021, youtube
random facts
i played football for fifteen years, from age 3 to 18, and was part of the estonian national team from U15 to U18.