Principal Backend Engineer with AI Focus

Linas is a highly experienced backend engineer with 15 years of experience, based in Vilnius, Lithuania, and open to remote work with US Eastern overlap and async-friendly with Pacific time zones. He is not willing to relocate. His expertise includes Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, and AI agent infrastructure (e.g., Temporal), with some frontend capability. He has a strong background, having worked at Automattic on Jetpack Backup and Media Cloud (Harvard/MIT, ICWSM 2021 co-author), and has given talks on Postgres at scale at PGConf SV 2018 and APAC 2019. Currently, he is running aero.zip and lobsterpack.com in parallel. Linas identifies as a 'Grug-brain engineer' and a 'recovering purist,' preferring fast iteration and course correction over lengthy design phases. He embraces AI as an exoskeleton. He is not a fan of 'calculator apps on Kubernetes,' six-round interview pipelines, or unpaid take-home assignments longer than 2 hours.