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Oliver Naaris

Oliver Naaris

Founder — speech-to-speech AI; DevOps/SRE & Cloud infrastructure

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Tallinn, Estonia
Joined November 2025
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Summary

Founder and product lead in speech-to-speech AI: Oliver founded PolyglotPal to build a low-latency, conversational AI tutor for language learners. The company's website and demo video show an emphasis on real-time audio conversations, role-play scenarios, and practical productization of speech-to-speech agents. polyglotpal+2
Experienced DevOps / SRE and cloud infrastructure engineer: Oliver has a long background (since ~2014) in DevOps, SRE, security and continuous delivery, working across companies and startups to build and operate production systems. He runs or works with cloudcraft.consulting and writes about observability, OpenTelemetry, and infrastructure best practices. cloudcraft+2
Hands-on reliability and automation focus in payments and integrations: His posts describe practical incident workflows at pawaPay (many mobile-money integrations) and propose automation/AI-agent solutions to offload repetitive troubleshooting work — indicating strengths in operational automation and platform reliability for fintech/payments environments. substack
Public technical writing and community presence: Maintains an active Substack with technical posts (observability, agentic workflows, engineering opinion), a Kaggle profile, GitHub contributions (e.g., participation in open-source issues), and public demos — showing that he shares learnings and engages with developer communities. substack+2

Work

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Writing

From Mind-Numbing to Automated using AI Agents: Why Your Best Engineers Are Wasting Time on 'Support' Calls.

August 1, 2025

Describes recurring operational pain at pawaPay (many integrations to mobile-money operators) and proposes using AI agents to automate low-value, repetitive support tasks while keeping humans in the loop.

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It's 2025. If you're starting a new project with UUIDv4 for your database ID-s, you're already creating tech debt!

August 1, 2025

Opinion / engineering guidance advocating UUIDv7 for database IDs and describing performance benefits and practical migration considerations.

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Why OpenTelemetry is awesome

September 1, 2024

Practical write-up about using OpenTelemetry tracing to diagnose and improve performance in a Python backend; includes examples and lessons from PolyglotPal.

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Hobbies

Traveling, running, cycling, bouldering, reading, techno/music — active traveler and outdoors interests listed on personal community profile. couchsurfing