Saulius Grigaitis
CTO at Grandine
Lithuania
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Top SchoolSaulius Grigaitis is a seasoned CTO and hands-on distributed systems engineer with 18 years of experience building cryptographically secure, large-scale web and blockchain systems. He currently leads the development of an Ethereum 2.0 client at Grandine while advising and scaling engineering teams through his NECOLT practice, taking startups from early stages to acquisition or IPO. An academic as well—Associate Professor at Vilnius University and PhD candidate—he applies privacy-preserving cryptography (garbled circuits, homomorphic encryption, TEEs, ZK proofs) to real-world ML and healthcare problems. His open-source work ranges from DevOps tooling for database sync to creating a Ruby-on-Rails-inspired web framework in Swift, reflecting a blend of production pragmatism and systems-level experimentation. Based in Lithuania, he combines enterprise pedigree (Yext, Electronic Arts partners) with startup exits and deep research, making him a rare bridge between applied cryptography research and production-grade distributed systems.
18 years of coding experience
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
English, Lithuanian
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Github Skills (19)
url-routing10
controller10
capistrano10
request-handler10
webrequest10
http-request10
web-framework10
httpwebrequest10
swift10
deployment-automation10
ruby9
fileio9
file-access9
file-processing9
file-handling9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
sgruhier/capistrano-db-tasks
Oct 2013 - Feb 2014
Add capistrano tasks for syncing remote and local database
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Saulius primarily focused on maintaining and updating the `capistrano-db-tasks` project, which involves tasks for syncing databases and assets. They made changes to support Capistrano 3 and dropped support for Capistrano 2. The user also updated the project's transport protocol to SCP and refined how environment variables are used on the remote server. This work ensured the continued operability and improved the efficiency of database and asset synchronization across deployments.
syncinglocal-databasedatabasecapistranolaravel
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