Summary
Dariuš Butkevičius is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer and founder with 11+ years building production-grade AI systems across startups and enterprises, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led teams of 10+ engineers and researchers to deliver ML pipelines processing millions of events daily, shipped LLM-based tools and generative-AI products, and founded AI-first startups in fitness tech that tracked 175k+ workouts in production. His work spans fraud detection, NLP, data platforms and RAG/LLM applications, and he bridges product strategy with hands-on engineering—having owned roadmap, growth and technical delivery as CEO/CTO. Notably, he scaled a generative knowledge curation capability into a core $0.5B business-unit deliverable referenced by IDC, showing an ability to move advanced research into measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Data Engineering, Data Engineering at Aalborg University
Secondary, Secondary at Vilnius Simon Konarsky Secondary School
Other; Certificate in Organizational Leadership, Other; Certificate in Organizational Leadership at Harvard Business School Online
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
Physics, Physics at Junior Physics School “Photon”
Mathematics, Mathematics at Lithuanian School for young mathematicians at Vilnius University
English, Lithuanian, Polish, Russian