Role at Tom Sawyer Software
Krists Boitmanis is a Principal Product Development Engineer of Tom Sawyer Software. Earlier in his career, he specialized in geometric data structures and graph layout algorithms, and actively contributed his understanding of graph layout and analysis technologies to Tom Sawyer Software products.
Working Background
Krists first joined Tom Sawyer Software in 2000 while studying as an undergraduate student at the University of Latvia with Professor Paulis Kikusts, the leader of the graph layout research group in Riga, Latvia. He later became the Product Manager of the Tom Sawyer Layout and Tom Sawyer Analysis teams before leaving the company in 2006 to study with Professor Ulrik Brandes at the University of Konstanz, Germany. During his studies at Konstanz, Krists' main area of research focused on the visualization of dynamic networks that evolve through time. In 2008, he rejoined Tom Sawyer Software as a Sales Engineer, working with prospects and customers in Europe. In 2012, Krists began working in the Products department where he led graph layout and analysis design work.
Following a tenure at Google from 2019 to 2025 working as a Site Reliability Engineer, Krists returned to Tom Sawyer Software to help build next generation graph technology products.
Education
Krists holds a Master's degree in Computer Science with honors from the University of Latvia. He has also won medals in two International Olympiad of Informatics competitions, in addition to winning the gold medal in the Central-European Olympiad in Informatics. In 2024, he earned the Google Cloud Tech Impact Award.