Laimonas Simutis
Independent Owner at Nightingale Trading
Chula Vista, California, United States
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Top SchoolLaimonas Simutis is an independent software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of professional experience building resilient cloud-native services and trading platforms. He founded Nightingale Trading to apply his dual expertise in development and trading, delivering broker-integrated execution, screening, and performance analytics. Previously a Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager at Mediafly, he led foundational APIs, introduced machine learning features like intelligent search and Meeting Assistant, and championed resilient distributed-system design across the company. An early mover on pragmatic migrations and engineering practices, he drove VB6-to-.NET rewrites and unit testing adoption in prior roles to dramatically improve reliability and adoption. He contributes to open source work such as porting classification features to the well-known Apache Lucene.NET project, blending backend engineering with test automation. Outside work he studies history and human psychology and recharges through snowboarding and outdoor pursuits, a habit that informs his focus on simplicity and usability in products.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree Computer Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (15)
lucene10
lucene-net10
asp-net10
net10
dotnet10
csharp10
classification10
dotnet-core10
testing10
searching9
sql-query9
indexing8
indexof8
visual-studio-code6
asp-net-mvc6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
apache/lucenenet
Dec 2014 - Jan 2016
Apache Lucene.NET
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 44 reviews, 191 commits in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Laimonas primarily contributed to the Apache Lucene.NET project by porting code from the Apache Lucene-Solr project, specifically the classification features. This included implementing the SimpleNaiveBayesClassifier and KNearestNeighborClassifier, along with refactoring, class renaming, and code formatting. Furthermore, the user created and modified several unit tests and incorporated util classes to validate the created classification functionalities, ensuring the code's reliability.
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laimis/mflyCommands
Dec 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 4 months
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