Summary
Simas Joneliunas is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building data-driven systems across Microsoft, Alibaba, and startup environments, currently focused on search and analytics in Shanghai. He has led large-scale migrations to microservices and designed multi-tenant Spark/Synapse ETL frameworks that improved data freshness by over 20x and enabled realtime analytics for Office 365 customers. Comfortable across backend, data and ML stacks, Simas has shipped high-throughput, multi-petabyte pipelines and recommendation systems with strict latency and availability SLAs. His background spans e-commerce, B2B products and financial AI, and he retains a startup mindset—owning end-to-end architecture and ops while mentoring teams through NLP workshops and process improvements. Unusually for an engineer at his level, he also holds a PhD in measurement engineering and has hands-on experience translating technical research into production features that measurably boost engagement and revenue.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) of measurement engineering Synchronization and energy consumption problems of the wireless sensor networks, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) of measurement engineering Synchronization and energy consumption problems of the wireless sensor networks at Kaunas University of Technology, faculty of Telecommunication and Electronics
Engineer of computer sciences Computer system design programmingoperating systems UML, Engineer of computer sciences Computer system design programmingoperating systems UML at Kaunas University of Technology, Department of Computer Engineering
English, Lithuanian, Japanese, Russian, Chinese