Summary
Pranas Kiziela is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 16 years of experience building AI-driven travel products and marketplaces from Vilnius, Lithuania. He co-founded Eddy Travels, an AI travel assistant that reached over 1 million users across messaging platforms, and now leads TripAdd, an ancillary travel product marketplace that uses machine learning to assemble personalized discounted travel bundles via a single API. Pranas blends hands-on engineering—rooted in Ruby on Rails and systems architecture—with product-focused AI integration to solve real-world booking and discovery problems for mobile-first travelers. His background spans early Rails development through senior architecture roles, giving him a pragmatic ability to scale systems while keeping user experience central. Notably, he has experience taking conversational AI products through Techstars and turning aggregated vendor offers into composable APIs for partners. He combines entrepreneurial grit with deep technical craft, making complex travel commerce feel simple for end users.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Software Engineering at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
French, Lithuanian, English