Andris Bērzkalns

Andris Bērzkalns

Software Engineer

Building thoughtful web experiences, scalable systems, and delightful interfaces.

Projects

A small selection of side projects and experiments I have built

Aribabox website preview
Shopify
Aribabox

Woodworking design e-commerce store. It's a Shopify store with a customized theme. It is being used and gets clients every day.

Shopify
JDK Mārupe preview
Laravel
JDK Mārupe

Latvian folk dance group's website. First website I've ever made, for my at the time dance group. It's still up and running!

LaravelJavaScriptPHPMySQL
Vārdulis preview
Expo.dev
Vārdulis

Latvian "Wordle" clone. Made in spare time as a fun project. It's a word guessing game where you have to guess a word in 5 tries. Had to figure out how to scrape a coherent list of words in latvian. It is being played by hundreds of people every day.

Expo.dev
Strawberry preview
ThreeJS
Strawberry

The first 3D project I've ever made. It's a 3D strawberry model with a simple animation. It's a simple project, but it was a big step for me in learning 3D web design.

ThreeJS
3DConnect4 preview
ThreeJS
3DConnect4

It's a simple game, but was a good excercise to use Prisma with NextJS and implement real time player to player interactions.

ThreeJSTypeScriptReactJSPrismaNextJS
ATOM preview
ThreeJS
ATOM

A fun project for visualizing the periodic table atoms. It's a simple project that uses ThreeJS with ReactJS and NextJS.

ThreeJSTypeScriptReactJSNextJS
Chocolate preview
ThreeJS
Chocolate

I like chocolate. So I decided to challenge myself and make a commercial astetique website for a chocolate brand. It's a simple project, but it was a good excercise in design and layout.

ThreeJSDreiTypeScriptReactJSNextJS

My Stack

Tools and platforms I rely on to build, ship, and design products

Frontend

ReactJS

NextJS

Tailwind CSS

TypeScript

Backend

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Node.js

Design

Adobe Photoshop

Figma

3D

ThreeJS

Blender

DevOps

Vercel

AWS

Ecommerce

Shopify

Experience

Roles that have shaped my experience as a software engineer

Present|2024
Giraffe360 logo

Senior Programmer

Giraffe360

Real estate media platform that turns property scans into floor plans, virtual tours, and listing-ready marketing assets.

  • Front-end web development and maintenance of Giraffe360's floor plan editor and related projects.
2024|2020
Swedbank logo

Software Engineer

Swedbank

Risk and Compliance Platform department. Development and implementation in ServiceNow GRC applications.

  • Implemented the Business Continuity Management application.
  • Built a standardized PDF document generation solution.
  • Created scripts and tools to improve team workflow.
2020|2019
D8Corporation logo

Programmer

D8Corporation

Software development company.

  • Banking related software maintenance and feature development.
  • Work with NodeJS, ReactJS, Backbone, Jenkins, SQL.
2019|2018
Datu tehnoloģiju grupa logo

Programming Technician

Datu tehnoloģiju grupa

Software and Hardware company.

  • Development related to Worktime management software. User interface and server-side development.
  • Primarily developed in JavaScript (React, Meteor, MongoDB).
  • Hardware integration for facial recognition hardware in C#.
Andris Berzkalns

Contact me

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Based in Riga, Latvia