Location: Vilnius, Lithuania

Remote: Yes — US Eastern overlap, async-friendly with Pacific (years of practice), happy to do the occasional late sync call.

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: backend, Python, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, AI agent infra (e.g. Temporal), I can fake my way around frontend too

Resume: https://valiukas.dev/resume-linas-valiukas.pdf

Email: [email protected]

15 years backend. Ex-Automattic on Jetpack Backup, ex-Media Cloud (Harvard/MIT, ICWSM 2021 co-author). PGConf SV 2018 and APAC 2019 talks on Postgres at scale. Currently running https://aero.zip + https://www.lobsterpack.com in parallel and vibecoding like crazy.

Grug-brain engineer (https://grugbrain.dev) and recovering purist. I'd rather push the needle in the wrong direction fast and correct course than design the perfect thing for six months. AI embracer - I treat it as an exoskeleton, not a replacement.

Not a big fan of: calculator apps on Kubernetes, six-round interview pipelines, unpaid take-homes longer than 2 hours.