Summary
Lukas Dirzys is an engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building ML-driven products and teams across startups and scale-ups. As Founder & CTO of Creative AI he led product, research and a cross-functional team to create pickle.ai, a personalized content search and discovery platform for creative inspiration. He now applies that product and MLOps expertise as Engineering Manager (MLOps) at Vinted, focusing on taking experimental models into reliable, production-grade systems. Comfortable shifting between strategy, hiring, and hands-on technical decisions, he prioritizes clarity and measurable outcomes. Early work at Skyscanner gave him practical experience in data acquisition, recommendation systems and automation, grounding his ML work in real-world data problems. Based in Vilnius and trained at the University of Edinburgh, he combines entrepreneurial grit with production-focused ML engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MInf, Informatics, MInf, Informatics at The University of Edinburgh
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Alytus St. Benedict Gymnasium
Lithuanian, English