Linas Valiukas
Captain at aero.zip
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
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Top SchoolLinas Valiukas is a seasoned backend lead and engineering leader with over 20 years of experience building high-performance, privacy-focused systems from startups to research institutions. As Captain at aero.zip he architects ultra-fast, zero-knowledge file transfer infrastructure that saturates modern fiber links and supports seamless chunked streaming and resumable transfers. Previously at Automattic and MIT Media Lab he modernized and optimized large legacy codebases, delivering a bespoke binary protocol that sped restores by up to 26x and cutting multi-petabyte storage costs by roughly 75%. He combines deep systems troubleshooting (GnuPG, MogileFS), storage and database scaling (30+ TB PostgreSQL), and DevOps rigor—containerizing complex stacks and introducing CI, testing, and deployment automation. An active open-source contributor, he improved the stability and Python 3.7 support of a fast readability port, reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and performance. Based in Vilnius with a BA in Journalism, he brings a practical, user-focused mindset to technically demanding backend problems.
20 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA Journalism, BA Journalism at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
Lithuanian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
python10
cicd10
testing10
setuptools9
py9
cross-platform6
autoupdate6
qt6
postgresql6
iphone6
amazon-s36
django6
lxml5
css4
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
buriy/python-readability
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
fast python port of arc90's readability tool, updated to match latest readability.js!
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Linas focused on improving the project's stability and maintainability through various contributions. They addressed performance issues by optimizing whitespace handling within the core readability algorithm. Furthermore, the user improved the build process by fixing the Travis build configuration, adding test dependencies, and including support for Python 3.7. They also enhanced testing by closing sample input files and added versioning information.
readabilityupdatedpythonmatch
pypt/shaibos
Apr 2016 - Sep 2020
Individualios veiklos mokesčių skaičiuoklė kompiuterastams
Contributions:98 commits, 2 PRs, 38 pushes in 4 years 5 months
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