Telia
Modernization and architectural refactoring of critical digital pillars for a major telecom operator — from national communication hubs to retail screen management.
Role
CTO & Lead Engineer, BIND
Years
mid-2010s
Focus
Telecom digital ecosystem
For Telia — a major telecom operator — BIND modernized and refactored a spread of critical digital pillars: the NETI portal, the Suhtlus app on Online.ee, retail screen management, an enterprise seminar app and high-traffic campaigns.
Simplicity over cleverness
The guiding philosophy was simplicity over cleverness — no monolithic silos, no trendy stacks where they didn’t belong. Much of the work was unglamorous and essential: database optimization and technical-debt removal for zero-downtime modernization.
The BIND team and their quick solutions were the end to our problems. — Holger Haljand, VP Enterprise, Telia Company
Every system was engineered so Telia’s internal teams could assume ownership without friction — clean separation of concerns and rigorous documentation throughout.