Rihards Krišlauks
Senior Software Developer at Latvijas Mobilais Telefons SIA
Riga, Latvia
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Top SchoolRihards Krišlauks is a Senior Software Developer with 11 years of experience specializing in machine learning, neural machine translation, and applied research in theoretical CS and reinforcement learning. He has moved models from research to production at Tilde, integrating MT engines into CAT tools and improving NMT architectures and deployment pipelines. Currently doing R&D in computer vision at Latvijas Mobilais Telefons, he pairs strong research instincts with hands-on engineering. His open-source work includes contributing date range parsing and RFC3339-aware time handling to the Rust search engine Tantivy, reflecting attention to protocol correctness and performant backend code. Comfortable across languages and platforms, he also has a background in mobile and backend systems and a track record of turning mathematical ideas into practical solutions. Based in Riga, Latvia, he blends academic rigor (Master’s in CS) with production-grade software delivery.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
1st level professional higher education, programming qualification, Computer Programming/Programmer, General, 1st level professional higher education, programming qualification, Computer Programming/Programmer, General at University of LatviaSecondary education, Physics, Secondary education, Physics at Riga State Gymnasium No. 1
Latvian, English, Russian, Spanish
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Github Skills (25)
search-engine10
apidoc10
query-parser10
php10
api10
parse10
rust10
testing9
json9
javascript8
architecture7
algorithm7
algorithms7
data-structure7
architectures7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
matecat/MateCat
Jul 2015 - May 2018
MateCat is an AI driven translation tool for language industry professionals. Matecat makes machine translation post-editing and project outsourcing easy.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:65 commits, 3 PRs, 8 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Rihards primarily focused on integrating the Tilde MT engine into the MateCat translation tool. Their contributions include adding the LetsMT (Tilde MT) engine, modifying the TM and engine controller, and creating supporting model structures. They implemented features for language filtering, quality estimation score handling, and a system to wake up the Tilde MT engine, improving the integration and functionality of machine translation providers within MateCat.
nlptranslation-toolmachine-translationtranslationpost-editing
quickwit-oss/tantivy
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
Tantivy is a full-text search engine library inspired by Apache Lucene and written in Rust
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 6 days
Contributions summary:Rihards primarily contributed to the `tantivy` search engine library, focusing on implementing date range query parsing capabilities. Their work involved modifying the query grammar to support date and time parsing according to RFC3339, including time zones. They also wrote tests to ensure the correct functionality of the date range queries within the search engine. Further contributions included refactoring and optimizing the code, along with adjustments to existing tests.
full-text-searchrustfull-textindexingapache
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