Rimas Silkaitis
Head Of Product - Platform
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRimas Silkaitis is a seasoned product leader with 15 years of experience building developer-focused platforms and data products, currently leading Platform Product at Benchling from San Francisco. He has scaled product organizations and roadmaps as VP Product at Meroxa and Senior Director of Product Management at GitHub, bringing deep expertise in data platforms, integrations, and developer experience. Early engineering roots and open-source contributions to Apache Airflow — including work on encrypted connections and database upgrade paths — give him a rare combination of hands-on backend sensibility and strategic product judgment. He hosted Heavybit’s Practical Product podcast, mentoring founders on taking developer tools to market, and has repeatedly launched and grown managed data services like Heroku Postgres and Redis. Known for translating complex infrastructure and security needs into practical product features, he pairs an MBA perspective with technical credibility to drive adoption among developer and enterprise customers.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Miami UniversityMBA, MBA at Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
Github Skills (13)
apache-airflow10
schema-design10
sqlalchemy10
python10
schema10
db-schema10
database-design10
database-schema10
cryptography9
data-engineering9
orchestration9
orchestra9
workflow-engine9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apache/airflow
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 PRs, 34 comments, 1 issue in 7 months
Contributions summary:Rimas made several code changes focused on enhancing the Apache Airflow project, primarily involving modifications to the data models and database configuration. They updated the connection model by adding encryption and modifying password handling. The user also made code changes to facilitate easier database upgrades, especially relating to the metadata database schema. Furthermore, they incorporated a fernet key during configuration file creation and introduced a crypto setup option.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
neovintage/dotfiles
Jan 2017 - Aug 2023
Contributions:21 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
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