Modestas Petravicius
Co-Founder, CTO at Blanc
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolModestas Petravicius is a hands-on software leader and Co-Founder/CTO based in New York with a decade of experience building backend systems and shaping product architecture. He progressed from .NET developer roles to Lead Software Architect at Roger before founding Blanc, combining deep engineering with strategic technical leadership. His work includes meaningful open-source contributions to PdfPig, improving PDF text extraction accuracy by refactoring internal document structures and fixing coordinate transformations—an indication of attention to low-level correctness. Trained in mathematics and physics at the University of Warwick, he brings a rigorous, analytical approach to system design and debugging. Colleagues describe him as someone who treats software development as both a profession and a hobby, consistently shipping pragmatic, well-tested solutions.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at The Lithuanian School for Young Mathematicians, Vilnius University, LithuaniaMaster's Degree Mathematics and Physics, Master's Degree Mathematics and Physics at University of WarwickHigh School, High School at J. Pabreza GymnasiumJunior Physicists' School "PHOTON", Siauliai University, Lithuania
Lithuanian, English
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Github Skills (11)
csharp10
dotnet-core10
pdf9
netstandard7
netcore6
asp-net-core-mvc6
asynchronous6
async-await6
wcf6
asp-net-core6
beep6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
UglyToad/PdfPig
Mar 2018 - Apr 2018
Read and extract text and other content from PDFs in C# (port of PDFBox)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 15 days
Contributions summary:Modestas primarily focused on improving the functionality of the PDF parsing library, specifically modifying the internal structure of the `PdfDocument` class. They refactored and moved internal properties to fields. Additionally, they worked on implementing and fixing coordinate space transformations for letter bounding boxes within the PDF. These changes indicate a focus on improving the accuracy and completeness of the library's text extraction capabilities.
pdf-generationhocrpdf-extractorpdf-documentpdf-manipulation
GowenGit/crude
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:13 releases, 63 commits, 28 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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