{"id":4749,"date":"2026-05-05T11:17:56","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:17:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ojars.kapteinis.lv\/par-mani\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T00:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T21:43:15","slug":"par-mani","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ojars.kapteinis.lv\/en\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About me"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, my name is Oj\u0101rs. I was born and raised in Riga.<\/p>\n

I’m drawn to work that requires figuring out something new \u2014 I believe collective intelligence finds solutions faster than any individual can. And in my view, the web and software should be open and decentralized, which is why I run and host my own solutions myself.<\/p>\n

Lately that has meant a lot of artificial intelligence<\/strong>: locally-run language models, RAG<\/a>-based knowledge bases, and AI workflows that get far more out of modest hardware than ought to be possible. I’ve built self-hosted LLM infrastructure with Latvian-language support, AI assistants that review my code, and a RAG layer over my personal knowledge base \u2014 all on my own machines, with no dependence on external cloud platforms.<\/p>\n

The day job: I’ve spent more than twenty years in IT, leading projects and teams. Today I look after platforms and portals for clients in Northern Europe and the Baltics<\/strong> \u2014 billing, e-commerce, payments, third-party integrations, cloud and containerized services, customer self-service \u2014 both building them and running them day to day. Before that came billing and customer-communication platforms in Scandinavia, and public-sector work including cross-border integration platforms commissioned by the European Commission. Along the way I’ve managed budgets and contracts, set up SLAs and KPIs, negotiated with PCAOB-registered auditors, and hired the people who made it all work.<\/p>\n

Years ago I told a magazine interviewer that I’d “be a better father now” \u2014 and life gave me the chance to test that. There are now five little captains in the house. It’s great. I love it! And I really am a much better father than I was at twenty.<\/p>\n

Here I write about whatever I find important or worth sharing. Back in the day I did something similar at the “radical” portal Publikai.lv and, together with Edgars and Didzis, on the podcast \u00abAlus Pu\u010ds\u00bb, which aired on Radio NABA for a while.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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