Ernestas Poškus
Founder at QuietScroll
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Summary
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Top SchoolErnestas Poškus is a pragmatic, ambitious software leader and founder with 12 years of experience building high-throughput search systems, developer tooling, and product-facing features. At Vinted he progressed from backend and SRE roles to lead Search Platform Engineering, operating Elasticsearch at over a million requests per minute and driving a full rebuild of core search functionality with a focus on performance and experimentation. He now runs PaperLedge, a one-person startup using AI to turn dense research into engaging, story-driven podcasts, blending technical rigor with product storytelling. An active open-source contributor, he has enhanced Rust-based front-end templating and published tooling around Elasticsearch and Kafka, showing hands-on breadth across systems and UX. Based in Vilnius, he pairs engineering depth in distributed systems and search with entrepreneurial instincts for making complex knowledge accessible.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering Informatics Information Technology, Bachelor of Engineering Informatics Information Technology at VILNIUS TECH - Vilnius Gediminas Technical UniversityBachelor of International Business International Business, Bachelor of International Business International Business at International Business School at Vilnius University
English, Lithuanian, Russian
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Github Skills (13)
html10
macros10
rust10
template-engine10
mongoimport6
csv6
javascript6
dictionary6
codeigniter6
controller6
mongodb6
csv-import6
coffeescript6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
lambda-fairy/maud
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
:pencil: Compile-time HTML templates for Rust
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 22 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ernestas implemented several HTML helper elements to facilitate the creation of HTML templates using the Rust library. They added components for Javascript, meta tags, title, charset, and meta properties. These additions likely enhance the library's capabilities by simplifying the process of including common HTML elements within generated templates, allowing for greater flexibility in front-end development. Furthermore, they added MetaRobots elements for SEO purposes.
template-enginetemplatepencilcompile-timerust
ernestas-poskus/ansible-zookeeper
Mar 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 84 pushes, 35 branches in 2 years 1 month
ansiblezookeeperansible-playbookplaybook
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