Erik Heintare

Leading Analytics @ Neko Health | 10+ years in Data Analytics & Data Engineering | ex-Bolt

Tallinn, Harjumaa, Estonia

About

My socials bio says, "Probably taller than you". Other than that, I've swum in data waters for more than 10 years, mostly in data lakes and streams but sometimes in data swamps as well. I'm currently leading analytics at Neko Health, where I'm building the teams and processes that turn Neko’s data into smarter decisions, better products, and ultimately, healthier lives at scale. Before that, I collected almost all Data Professional titles at Bolt, from Data Analyst to Data Engineer, Analytics Engineer to Analytics Manager, and lately, Senior Data Engineer to Data Platform Engineering Manager. I still need to figure out how I missed the Data Scientist role. Outside of working hours, I'm a father, husband, and owner of two dogs. I like to read, write, and try out all kinds of sports. Feel free to connect with me in regards to data, AI, data mesh, data architecture, data roles at Neko or any other relevant reason besides "let's have a quick call".

Experience

  • Head of Analytics at Neko Health
    Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

    Leading the Data Analytics function, where I'm building the teams and processes that turn Neko’s data into smarter decisions, better products, and ultimately, healthier lives at scale.

  • Bolt (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • Engineering Manager - Data Platform
      Jan 2024 - Aug 2025 · 1 yr 8 mos

      Leading multiple engineering teams in the Data Platform organisation to build the world's best data platform with data mesh architecture for 500+ internal users. The Data Platform Ingestion team enables seamless and scalable ingestion of internal and external data sources into the company's data lake, ensuring data is accessible, reliable, and secure. The Data Platform Insights team provides a cost-effective, secure, and scalable infrastructure that enables data products in a data mesh architecture.

    • Head of Insights
      Oct 2021 - Jan 2024 · 2 yrs 4 mos

      Helping to build data products/insights for all users inside the company and leading 200+ analysts across the organisation. - Taking care of all aspects of our BI tool (Looker) as an admin and the main contributor - Definition and maintenance of denormalized/aggregated views and data access management solutions. (dbt + Databricks + Airflow) - Knowledge sharing (Knowledge Repo) and data discoverability (Amundsen) - Making external data available (Fivetran) - Technical guidance and education of all other Data Analysts and Business teams

    • Senior Analytics Engineer
      Oct 2020 - Oct 2021 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • Data Engineer at Datafruit
    Mar 2016 - Aug 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos

    Built end-to-end data projects for clients like Adcash, Creditstar, Eesti Meedia, Synlab, Valmos, Bellus, and others. The main framework was to build ETL to get the client's data, store it in the data warehouse (PostgreSQL or client preference), and build analytics (Tableau and Python) on top of it. As a first employee, I also handled project management from task planning, time tracking, to billing.

  • Centre of Registers and Information Systems (Estonia)
    • Head of Law Enforcement Services Division
      Oct 2014 - Mar 2016 · 1 yr 6 mos

    • Application Administrator
      Jul 2012 - Oct 2014 · 2 yrs 4 mos