Vytautas Liuolia
Software Architect at Quickchannel
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolVytautas Liuolia is a software architect and engineer based in Stockholm with eight years of professional experience building reliable backend systems and APIs. Currently leading architecture at Quickchannel, he combines hands-on engineering with a focus on performance and developer experience. A core maintainer of the high-performance Falcon Python web framework, he has improved testing infrastructure, HTTP simulation, media handling, error serialization and WebSocket support to boost reliability at scale. His background spans long-term product engineering at Screen9 and a PhD in semiconductor physics from KTH, giving him a strong foundation in rigorous problem solving and systems thinking. Colleagues rely on him to bridge research-grade precision with pragmatic production delivery. He often brings subtle improvements—like enhanced test tooling and request simulation—that disproportionately reduce bugs and onboarding friction for teams.
8 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Physics, Material Science and Semiconductor Physics, Master of Science (MSc), Physics, Material Science and Semiconductor Physics at Vilnius UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Physics and Computing Physics, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Physics and Computing Physics at Vilniaus Universitetas / Vilnius UniversityVilnius LyceumDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Semiconductor Physics, Optics and Photonics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Semiconductor Physics, Optics and Photonics at Kungliga tekniska högskolan / KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (23)
api-rest10
python10
api-design10
restful-api10
testing10
media10
media-type10
multimedia10
rest-api10
json9
error-handling9
client-websocket8
websocket-client8
websockets-client8
websocket8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
falconry/falcon
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
The no-magic web API and microservices framework for Python developers, with an emphasis on reliability and performance at scale.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 916 reviews, 156 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vytautas primarily focused on enhancing the testing infrastructure and improving the overall API framework's usability and functionality. Their contributions included adding features to simulate HTTP requests, particularly by integrating JSON bodies and refining methods for simulating various HTTP methods. They also addressed bugs and made enhancements in the areas of media handling, error serialization, and WebSocket support, thereby improving the reliability and performance of the Falcon framework. These changes collectively aimed to boost the developer experience and the robustness of API responses.
pythonmagicdata-planemicroservicecorrectness
vytas7/uwsgi
Apr 2020 - Apr 2025
uWSGI application server container
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years
containersdockeruwsgiservercontainer
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