Team Mentors Career
Team
MARI HANIKAT
CEO
KADRI TIISVELT
Project Manager
LAURA GREDŽENS
Senior Project Manager
KSENIIA KARPENKOVA
Project Manager
JOAO REI
Host
KAI ISAND
Host
MAARIKA TRUU
Host
INDI
Chief Happiness Officer
Founders
RAIN RANNU
Founder
PRIIT SALUMAA
Founder
JÜRI KALJUNDI
Founder
RAGNAR SASS
Founder
MARTIN VILLIG
Founder
Mentors
Jaanus Sakkis
Creative Director and Founder at Feks Design
Sven Kirsimäe
Chief Architect at R&D, Software and Data at Salto Network
Maido Parv
Senior Product Designer at Wise
Helen Kokk
Design Product Lead
Cesar Zeppini
Design Lead at Veriff
Kristi Tammet
Integration Manager at Playtech
Jordan Valdma
Co-founder at Producement
Joseph Carson
Chief Security Scientist at Thycotic
Merilin Lukk
Lead mentor at Garage48
Martin Verrev
Applied AI Researcher at Taltech
Jaanus Jagomägi
UI / UX Designer at Vaim
Christer Loob
CEO and Co-founder at Operose OÜ
Romet Tagobert
Senior Software Engineer at Membrane.io
Indrek Rebane
CTO at Hedgehog Electronics Engineering
Kristel Kruustuk
Founder & CEO at Testlio
Karen K. Burns
CEO and Co-Founder at Fyma
Kieren Lovell
Head of CERT (TalTech) & Incident Response Lecturer (Defence Academy of the UK)
Triin Preem
Startup Segment Manager at Swedank Eestis
Gerardo Garcia Diaz
Product Manager at Comodule, Co-founder of Skyrocket Your Team, Lead Mentor at Garage48
Janet Chapman
Chair of Tanzania Development Trust, which has been supporting grassroots communities in rural Tanzania for 45 years.
Serdar Yucel
C-level Executive, Partner, Coach, Mentor and Advisor to international companies
Mayssa Tlig
Tunisian activist in the field of human rights , a defender of liberty of expression and gender equality
Olga Sjukkalova
Project manager @ Ida-Virumaa Vocational Education Center , Winner of Garage48 Narva
Oleksii Planida
CTO at Perseverance Game Studios
Alexandre Dulaunoy
Security Research at CIRCL
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Career         

We always seek for true ambassadors of Garage48 culture, who will carry us to the next level with passion and dedication.

 

If you are:

  • Culturally savvy, thriving while working with people from different cultures, mindsets, customs, and religions

  • Stress-resistant, as hackathons might require intense working conditions due to their nature

  • A vagabond in  your  heart, longing to explore new places for a great cause

  • Fun, joyful, reliable, open-minded, and a pleasure to work, travel, and spend time with

  • Hardworking, with high motivation and determination for “getting the shit done


Then you might just have a place in our team!


NB! A mix of open positions at Garage48 will be published here for prospective candidates, however, we do not have any available jobs currently. But do keep coming back to check the vacancies and become a part of our big, happy family.

Life at Garage48

Every step that we take in developing our business and every decision that we make while contributing to startup ecosystem are guided by our core team values:


Teamwork We believe in working together and benefiting from each other’s know-hows to optimize the productivity and fun!  

Partnership We believe in long-term partnerships with our sponsors and mentors as a base for sustainable business growth and value-added relationships.

ProfessionalismWe believe in professionalism in everything we do in order to maintain our operations on high quality standards.

Creativity We value creativity as a means of creating premium value for our partners and participants. Our team members are expected to think outside of the box and go the extra mile to achieve the unachievable.

Fun - As once Richard Branson stated, ““Fun is one of the most important - and underrated - ingredient in any successful venture.”



We prioritize the element of pleasure in everything we do, success follows naturally. On this basis, we established annual team events to fuel up and bond even further. Having Summer Days and Winter Break claimed as our main events, we can confidently say that they form only a small part of our ongoing fun and entertainment.


If you think you are a good fit for our team, don’t forget to reach out to follow up our vacancies.

Volunteer Squad

Our doors are always open to idealists and dreamers who want to join us in creating global impact via our hackathons and startup community. Please reach out, if  you want to learn from a great team and feel you have that something special that we could benefit as well.


Give it a try!