Roberts Grants — Engineering Team Lead

About

I'm an Engineering Team Lead with 7+ years of software development experience, specializing in .NET back-end engineering, technical leadership, and enterprise insurance products.

At Sapiens, I lead seven developers and three QA engineers delivering Home and Motor insurance solutions for major UK brands. I work closely with Business Analysts and Product Owners on requirements, priorities, technical design, and delivery across concurrent projects.

I use AI-assisted and agentic development workflows throughout the development lifecycle, from architecture exploration and requirement analysis to implementation, testing, debugging, code review, and refactoring.

My hands-on infrastructure experience includes Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, private cloud, and on-premises deployments. I also maintain a self-hosted home lab to explore virtualization, networking, monitoring, security, and deployment automation.

Skills

Leadership: Team leadership, performance reviews, sprint planning, capacity planning, technical decisions
Engineering: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, REST APIs, React, MySQL, xUnit, Moq, software architecture, code review
Agentic development: Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, agentic workflows, MCP servers, prompt engineering, test generation, refactoring
Cloud & delivery: Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Docker Compose, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, Jenkins
Languages: English, Latvian, Russian

Experience

Sapiens

Team Lead

Jun 2024 — Present · Riga, Latvia

Aviva · QMH

Lead seven developers and three QA engineers delivering Home and Motor insurance products
Partner with Business Analysts and Product Owners to refine requirements, align priorities, and coordinate delivery
Own sprint planning, estimation, capacity planning, work allocation, and technical decisions across concurrent projects
Conduct code reviews, performance reviews, mentoring, and regular development feedback
Translate complex insurance requirements into technical designs and actionable implementation plans
Apply AI-assisted workflows to complete development tasks from start to finish and increase automated test coverage

Sapiens

Full Stack Developer

Jul 2022 — Jun 2024 · Riga, Latvia

Aviva · QMH · Barclays · Nationwide

Designed and implemented new features using .NET Core, MySQL, and React
Implemented unit and integration tests across client projects
Contributed to five different insurance projects
Participated in sprint planning, estimation, technical analysis, and code reviews
Collaborated with developers, QA engineers, Business Analysts, and Product Owners throughout the development lifecycle

n-fuse

Software Engineer

Jan 2020 — Feb 2022 · Riga, Latvia & Stuttgart, Germany

Daimler AG

Worked with Daimler AG on enterprise automotive software
Designed and implemented new features using .NET Core
Implemented integration tests for APIs using xUnit and Moq
Built fully automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins for containerized applications using Docker
Implemented email notifications and user preference systems

Freelance

Software Engineer

Jul 2019 — Dec 2019 · Riga, Latvia

Created a Telegram bot using Spring Boot
Contributed to a Telegram-based web shop for an e-commerce platform

Education

Riga Technical University

Bachelor of Engineering Sciences — Computer Control and Computer Science

Computer Systems

Sep 2019 — Jun 2022 · Riga, Latvia

Newcastle University

Associate Degree in Computer Science

Sep 2016 — Sep 2018 · Newcastle, UK

Cloud & Home Lab

Self-Hosted Home Lab

Personal Infrastructure Project

Ongoing · Riga, Latvia

Design and operate self-hosted infrastructure using Proxmox, Linux, Docker, and Docker Compose
Deploy and maintain containerized applications, reverse proxies, monitoring services, NAS storage, and other self-hosted systems
Configure networking and secure remote access using VPNs, firewalls, DNS, and Cloudflare Tunnel
Develop practical experience with virtualization, container orchestration, private cloud infrastructure, networking, and deployment automation