Edgar Žigis
Head Of AI Engineering at Kiloverse
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Summary
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Top SchoolEdgar Žigis is a pragmatic engineering leader and Head of AI Engineering with 11+ years of experience building mobile-first products and scaling engineering organizations in fast-moving startups. He blends deep hands-on expertise in iOS/Android and backend systems with strategic product leadership, having led the teams that built a world-first EMV A2A POS payments solution and turned around a major banking app into the Baltic region’s top-rated financial app. Edgar has repeatedly built high-performing, low-turnover teams and strong delivery practices—assembling seven product & engineering teams and achieving excellent DORA metrics. Beyond payments and mobile, he brings a rare mix of field science and ML experience—deploying a personal neural network in the Amazon for amphibian behavior analysis and conducting Arctic limnology research—which informs his work in computer vision and applied AI. Currently he defines AI strategy and platform capabilities to infuse AI across product, marketing, and operations, combining product-first thinking with production-grade ML infrastructure.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Arctic Biology, Master's degree Arctic Biology at The University Centre in SvalbardBachelor's degree Biology General, Bachelor's degree Biology General at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
English, Russian, Lithuanian, Polish
Github Skills (173)
kakao10
material-ui10
seek10
cocoa10
storekit10
in-app-purchase10
buildsrc10
textfield10
receipt-validation10
firebase10
jetpack10
gauge10
sliding10
swift10
coroutines10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
edgar-zigis/Paleontologas
Feb 2020 - May 2022
Source code of the most popular Paleontological mobile app in the world! Programming sandbox.
Contributions:35 commits, 270 PRs, 172 pushes in 2 years 2 months
buildsrcandroid-architecture-componentsfirebasesandboxcoroutines
edgar-zigis/SegmentedArcView
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Unique & beautiful segmented arc view with rich customisation options! RTL supported.
Contributions:11 releases, 1 review, 27 commits in 2 years 3 months
rtlsegmentedsegmented-arccustomisationmaterial
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