Žilvinas Kučinskas
CEO at SearchApi
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Summary
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Top SchoolŽilvinas Kučinskas is a pragmatic software engineer and serial founder with 13 years building high-throughput SaaS products, real-time APIs, and reliable scraping infrastructure. As CEO of SearchApi and founder of ExportData (acquired), he combines deep Ruby on Rails expertise with production-grade stacks—Sidekiq, Hotwire, PostgreSQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Terraform and AWS—to deliver low-latency, developer-friendly services. His background spans technical leadership roles driving performance tuning, idempotent background jobs, OAuth2/KYC flows and billing via event sourcing, plus hands-on work designing scalable crawling and ad-scraping systems with industry-leading success rates. Comfortable from system design to infrastructure-as-code, he repeatedly turns complex requirements into maintainable, high-availability platforms. Based in Vilnius, he pairs startup grit with an academic foundation in computer science and a knack for SEO and growth-driven engineering that boosts organic traffic and developer adoption.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam)Master's degree Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree Computer Software Engineering at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
English, Lithuanian
Github Skills (200)
python10
mvc10
authentication10
ruby10
activerecord10
ruby-on-rails10
tencent10
sidekiq10
html10
bootstrapper10
rails10
oauth2-provider10
twitter-client10
braintree10
oauth10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ZilvinasKucinskas/ziku.dev
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Zilvinas Kucinskas Personal Website
Contributions:5 reviews, 85 commits, 4 PRs in 4 months
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ZilvinasKucinskas/FRP-EventSourcing
Dec 2013 - Jun 2017
Contributions:43 commits, 20 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 6 months
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