Richard Taujenis

Richard Taujenis

Backend Engineer — Go & Distributed Systems

Microservices, event-driven architecture, AWS & Kubernetes. Also Node.js, TypeScript and React. Based in Poznań, working in German and English.

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🏛️ WeAreDevelopers Berlin Team Lead

🇩🇪 German at working level, with two years of German client and team experience — open to German-speaking backend roles.

Languages:
🇬🇧 English (Native) 🇱🇻 Latvian (Native) 🇩🇪 German (B2) 🇷🇺 Russian (Fluent) 🇵🇱 Polish (Intermediate)

Key Achievements

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WeAreDevelopers Berlin Team Lead

Leading volunteer team organizing tech events and fostering developer community

n8n Automation Workflows

Built automation workflows saving 40+ hours/month in business processes

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Rust IoT Smart-Card

Developed high-performance smart-card authentication system for IoT applications

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RPi Robotics & RAG Pipelines

Created Raspberry Pi projects with OpenAI RAG pipelines for intelligent automation

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MozesCodes YouTube

Creating tech tutorials and sharing knowledge with the developer community

Featured Projects

Aetheric B.V. - VTOL Cargo Platform

Contributing to Realm and Hangar software for VTOL cargo delivery platform. Building fleet routing, flight planning, and vertiport management systems in Rust.

RustVTOLAerospaceDistributed Systems

MetaGame - TheGame Platform

Contributing to MetaOS - an open-source framework for running decentralized societies. Working on MyMeta Profiles, Dashboard & Quests using TypeScript, Next.js, and GraphQL.

TypeScriptNext.jsGraphQLWeb3Ceramic

Fluidity App

Full-stack application for fluid dynamics visualization and analysis. Built with modern web technologies for real-time data processing.

TypeScriptReactNode.jsWebGL

Side projects

Rust IoT Smart-Card System

High-performance smart-card solution built with Rust for IoT applications, featuring secure authentication and real-time data processing.

RustIoTEmbedded SystemsSecurity

n8n Automation Workflows

Complex automation workflows using n8n for business process automation, saving 40+ hours/month. Integrating multiple APIs and services for seamless operations.

n8nAutomationAPI IntegrationWorkflows

Raspberry Pi Projects

Collection of IoT and robotics projects using Raspberry Pi, including home automation, sensor networks, and embedded systems development with OpenAI RAG pipelines.

Raspberry PiPythonIoTRoboticsOpenAI

About

Backend engineer with 6+ years building production systems in Go, Node.js and Python. Microservices, event-driven architecture, AWS and GCP, Kubernetes. I also build fullstack with TypeScript, React and Next.js. Previously Berlin and Munich, now remote from Poznań.

Alongside that: Rust, embedded systems (Pico, Raspberry Pi), and AI agent tooling — some of which ends up on my YouTube channel. I'm also volunteer Team Lead at WeAreDevelopers Berlin.

Languages: Latvian (Native), German (B2), English (Native), Russian (Fluent), Polish (Intermediate)

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