Meelis Sootalu · Tallinn → applied AI in public

Senior support engineer. Building applied AI in public.

Ten years across B2B SaaS support, database administration, PIM ownership, test analysis, and IT operations. Currently shipping AI projects on this domain in the evenings.

Ten years across B2B SaaS support, database administration, PIM ownership, test analysis, and IT operations. Currently the senior escalation point at Evocon, a production-digitalisation and OEE platform used in factories across Europe. I take the hard tickets and the ambiguous ones — the cases where logs lie, integrations misbehave, and the answer requires SQL, an API trace, and a clear conversation with a stressed customer all at once.

Alongside the day job, I'm building applied AI in public on this site. The plan: ship real, deployed projects — a RAG-backed trip planner, a CV tailor, an MCP server, an evaluation harness — and write about each one as I go. Four DataCamp data and AI certifications sit behind that work, but the actual learning happens in the terminal. I learn by shipping rather than by collecting more credentials.

oneeurojourney.com is where that work lives. If you're hiring for an Applied AI Engineer, Technical Account Manager, or senior support engineering role and you want to see real shipped code instead of buzzwords on a CV — the project pages and the blog are for you. If you're a traveller who used the trip planner and it actually helped, there's a coffee button at the bottom.

  • Evocon Senior Product Support Engineer 2023 — present
  • Evocon Product Support Engineer 2021 — 2023
  • Post11 Application Database Administrator 2019 — 2021
  • W.EG Estonia PIM Owner 2017 — 2019
  • Viasat AS Operations Support System Manager 2015 — 2017
  • Swedbank AS Test Analyst 2013 — 2015
Coming soon

AI Trip Planner

Tell it your budget and travel style. It plans a real day-by-day trip across Europe, grounded in retrieved travel content. Model-agnostic — toggle between Claude and DeepSeek.

FastAPI · Claude · RAG · Chroma · Railway
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CV Tailor

Paste a job description, paste your master CV, get back a tailored one-pager and cover letter as a PDF. The tool I built for my own job hunt, now open to everyone.

FastAPI · Claude Sonnet · LaTeX · Railway
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Blog

Build logs, prompt-engineering notes, and the occasional honest post about what doesn't work. Indexed by Google so you can find me before the interview.

Hugo · Markdown · Veebimajutus
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MCP Server Demo

A small Model Context Protocol server you can install in Claude Desktop in 30 seconds. Exposes tools over a single Python file.

Python · MCP SDK · Railway
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  • Ten years of B2B support, and what I'm building next
  • From DataCamp certifications to a real RAG app
  • Building the One Euro Journey trip planner — a build log
AI Engineer for Data Scientists Associate
DataCamp · obtained 11 Aug 2025 · expires 11 Aug 2027
Data Scientist Associate
DataCamp · obtained 11 Dec 2025
Data Analyst Associate
DataCamp · obtained 1 Sep 2025
Python Data Associate
DataCamp · obtained 14 Aug 2025
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