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Curious by default, competitive by nature, and obsessed with turning ambitious ideas into reality.

Always learning, constantly shipping.

Nadim Metwalli

Tallinn, Estonia

About

Nadim on stage pitching SVARA's AI voice agent
Nadim hosting the Young Entrepreneurs Summer School
Nadim hosting the pitching stage at Latitude59
Nadim playing for Tallinna FC Starmedia
Nadim on stage with the Young Entrepreneurs Summer School team

I'm a Computer Science & AI student at TalTech who loves building real-world software and running critical systems. I tend to live a busy life, and I wouldn't have it any other way — between my degree, my full-time work, running a startup, and organising events, there's always another project being sketched.

Right now, my time is split across a few key things:

SVARA Technologies OÜ
I co-founded and lead engineering at SVARA. We build real-time AI voice infrastructure that handles phone calls and automates complex bookings for service businesses, starting with hotels. I built our real-time voice pipeline end to end (Node.js/TypeScript, Fastify, Twilio, OpenAI Realtime API, WebSockets) with sub-second latency and direct integrations into PMS platforms like Oracle Opera Cloud.
CARIAD Estonia (Volkswagen Group)
I work across major incident management — leading teams through high-stakes production outages — support engineering, and software development, building internal platforms in Go and Java.
Shipping & organising
I like organising big events, and I like building the software for the things I run. I built and launched the mobile app for Võti Tulevikku, TalTech's biggest career fair with 120+ companies, built a custom CMS for Enginaator, hosted the Pitching Stage at Latitude59, and ran the Young Entrepreneurs Programme.

Outside of engineering, you'll find me playing competitive football in the Estonian 2nd Division — centre-back and right-back for Tallinna FC Starmedia — helping first-year students as a TA at TalTech, or hacking together new MVPs over the weekend.

I speak Estonian, Arabic and English fluently, with conversational French and Russian. Always open to connecting with fellow builders and founders.

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Career

  1. CARIAD Estonia(Volkswagen Group)

    Oct 2025 — Present · Tallinn, Estonia

    Three roles held in parallel across support, incident management, and development.

    1. Support Engineer

      Oct 2025 — Present
      • Deliver support within predefined SLI, SLO and SLA targets.
      • Actively monitor systems and respond proactively to warnings, errors and failures.
      • Document processes and support concepts in a shared knowledge base.
      • Receive, process, forward, analyse and resolve incident tickets, problem records and service requests from 1st-level support and other support units, working directly with the development teams.
      • Provide hands-on support during major incidents.
    2. Major Incident Manager

      Apr 2026 — Present
      • Lead teams to resolution during major incidents — directing and coordinating critical incident response, ensuring rapid restoration and strict adherence to SLAs and KPIs.
      • Partner with DevOps teams to identify and implement automation that accelerates incident recovery.
    3. Software Developer Intern

      Jun 2026 — Present
      • Full-stack development on a large internal platform used across the organisation.
      • Work spans data modelling through to the interfaces the team uses day to day.
    • Go
    • Java
  2. SVARA Technologies OÜ

    Mar 2026 — Present · Tallinn, Estonia

    SVARA builds AI voice infrastructure for phone-dependent service businesses, starting with hospitality. Hotel calls get missed, mishandled, or pushed onto an overworked front desk — SVARA answers every call, understands guest intent across 20 languages, and resolves or routes it, integrating directly with hotel systems rather than bolting a chatbot on top. Baltic/Nordic-first, with a roadmap from call handling into a broader AI operations layer.

    1. Co-Founder, CEO & Lead Software Engineer

      Mar 2026 — Present

      Founder and sole engineer. I own the full stack — product architecture through pilot delivery, investor relations, and go-to-market.

      Engineering & product

      • Architected and built the real-time voice pipeline end to end — Node.js/TypeScript, Fastify, Twilio Media Streams, OpenAI Realtime API, WebSockets, PostgreSQL/Supabase — handling live inbound call audio at sub-second latency.
      • Selected the AI backend on production reliability rather than benchmarks, choosing OpenAI's Realtime API over Google Gemini after identifying critical turn-termination failures under multilingual, tool-calling workloads.
      • Designed a GDPR-native data architecture (AES-256-GCM encryption, EU data residency) as a core differentiator for European hospitality clients.
      • Led integration with Oracle's Hospitality Integration Platform to connect SVARA to Opera Cloud PMS, one of the industry's dominant hotel management systems.

      Pilots & delivery

      • Ran the flagship hotel pilot end to end — telecom call-routing setup with Elisa, staff training materials, and go-live.
      • Scoped and managed a second pilot in automotive services, adapting the product and workflow definitions to a multi-line business structure.
      • Owned the full product decision backlog for pilots: department knowledge-base logic, escalation flows, callback handling, and confirmation workflows.

      Company & team

      • Co-founded and lead a two-person founding team, splitting equity and responsibilities with the COO.
      • Act as sole engineer while running operations, which means owning every prioritisation trade-off between building product and running the business.

      Commercial

      • Sourced and closed the pilot hotel client and a second pilot prospect in a new vertical, running discovery calls, MVP scoping, and follow-up independently.
      • Built and negotiated carrier-level distribution partnerships with Elisa and Esecom for call-routing infrastructure.
      • Developed institutional relationships with TalTech and Tehnopol to support early traction and credibility.
      • Defined market positioning around phone-call-primary architecture, Baltic/Nordic multilingual depth, and GDPR-native design — against generic AI chatbot competitors.

      Fundraising

      • Ran a pre-seed process through due diligence, preparing materials on traction, cap table, and competitive landscape.
      • Structured a post-money SAFE as the fundraising instrument.
    • TypeScript
    • Node.js
    • Fastify
    • Twilio
    • OpenAI Realtime API
    • WebSockets
    • PostgreSQL
    • Supabase
  3. Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

    Sep 2025 — Present · Tallinn, Estonia
    1. Teaching Assistant

      Sep 2025 — Present

      Assisting first-year students with the fundamentals of Python programming and guiding them through full-stack development concepts.

      • Support classroom instruction and provide hands-on help during labs.
      • Work on students' grasp of core programming principles and real development workflows, not just syntax.
  4. Ibis Styles Hotel

    Jun 2024 — Dec 2024 · Tallinn, Estonia
    1. Front-Office Receptionist

      Jun 2024 — Dec 2024 · 7 mos

      Seven months on a hotel front desk — the exact workflow SVARA now automates.

      • Delivered customer service in a high-end hospitality environment, managing reservations and coordinating multilingual guest communications.
      • Provided accurate information in person and over phone and email.
      • Ran check-in and check-out, handled guest questions and requests, and supported administrative work at the front desk.
  5. Football media brand(self-founded)

    Jun 2021 — Oct 2025
    1. Founder & Social Media Marketer

      Jun 2021 — Oct 2025

      My first business venture — a social media football blog that grew into a marketing practice serving other businesses.

      • Built a 79,000+ follower community through tactical content planning, sponsorship collaborations, and match analysis. Still active today.
      • Designed and executed marketing material for 20+ local and international clients.
      • Edited promotional video and graphics in Adobe Suite and Canva, holding brand consistency across output.
      • Monetised the platform through brand partnerships, generating €5k+ in annual revenue.
    • Adobe Suite
    • Canva

Education

  • BSc, Computer Science & Artificial Intelligence

    Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech)

    Sep 2024 — Jun 2027 (expected)
  • High School Diploma

    Tallinna Prantsuse Lütseum

    Sep 2021 — Jun 2024

Major projects organised & hosted

  • Võti Tulevikku

    Aug 2025 — Mar 2026

    Main Organiser & IT Manager

    Owned every technology-related operation for the fair, for 120+ participating companies and thousands of students.

    • Led IT project management across the whole event.
    • Built the event's mobile application — see §03.
    • Configured and managed the official website, and built and ran the booking platform.
    • Coordinated the technical side of event organisation end to end.
  • Enginaator

    Nov 2024 — Apr 2025

    Main Organiser & Marketing Manager

    Ran the competition as main organiser while owning its marketing.

    • Worked with the project team and the TalTech committee to create engaging content and streamline participant registration.
    • Created promotional campaigns across social media, increasing event visibility.
    • Built the event's custom CMS — see §03.
  • Latitude59

    May 2026

    Main Host — Pitching Stage

    Hosted the pitching stage as main host.

  • Young Entrepreneurs Programme

    2026

    Main Organiser

    A condensed, high-intensity startup programme drawing ambitious young builders from across Europe and beyond.

    • Built around a hackathon, expert-led workshops, on-site visits to leading Estonian companies, and one-to-one mentorship from founders and investors.
    • The 2026 edition runs on a sport theme: evening panels and social events built around movement, and a hackathon challenge tackling real problems in mass sports participation.
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Biggest Projects I Have Shipped

01live2026

Võti Tulevikku App

Cross-platform mobile app for TalTech's biggest student career fair.

Attendees needed to find companies, sessions, and their way around a large venue while the event was running. Built a real-time navigation and schedule app, shipped to both stores in time for the fair.

  • React Native
  • TypeScript
  • Supabase
Võti Tulevikku app running on a phone
02live2025

Enginaator CMS

Full-stack content management system for Estonia's largest engineering competition.

The organising team had no way to update the site without a developer. Built a custom CMS with a no-code admin panel so non-technical staff can edit content themselves — removing the developer from the loop entirely.

  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Express.js
  • PostgreSQL
enginaator.ee
Enginaator CMS admin panel
03in progress2026

SVARA AI

Multilingual AI agent that handles phone calls and automates business bookings.

Co-founded and lead engineer. The work is in making a voice agent that holds a natural conversation across languages and completes a real booking at the end of it, rather than deflecting to a human.

  • TypeScript
  • Machine Learning
  • Voice AI
svara-ai.com
SVARA AI website
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Beyond the code

Estonian 2nd Division

Competitive football

Centre-back and right-back for Tallinna FC Starmedia since 2025, after six years at TJK Legion playing CDM, CB and RB.

The next idea

Always building

Between my full-time job, my startup, my university degree and actively organising events, there's usually another project being sketched. I live a busy life, always juggling something, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

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Hackathons

Active participant in hackathons and events where I can build something end to end in a weekend. Fastest way I know to find out where my gaps are.

Languages

  • EstonianFluent
  • ArabicFluent
  • EnglishFluent
  • RussianB2
  • FrenchB2
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On GitHub

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@nadimmetwalli
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Contact

Building something, hiring, or need someone who stays calm when production doesn't?

nadimmetwalli@gmail.com