Schvede was born in 1970 in, his military career began at the Leningrad Nakhimov Naval School.
[1][2] He later joined the Soviet Navy, receiving education at the Frunze Naval Academy (now the St. Petersburg Naval Institute), where he graduated with a bachelors in Electromechanical Engineering.
[1] Schvede was commissioned in 1993 in the navy, the beginning of which he participated in the withdrawal of the Soviet Armed Forces from Estonia.
[1] From 2013 to 2016, Schvede was Chief of Staff at the Headquarters of the Estonian Defence Forces[4] In August 2016, he was appointed as Estonia's representative to NATO and the European Union.
He is a recipient of the Order of the Cross of the Eagle of the Defence League.