About me
Good at computers.
Better with people.
I'm Linas. For 20 years I've been building whatever needed building — dictionary apps, public transit trackers, spellcheckers, a privacy file transfer service, news infrastructure used in 50+ countries, backup systems for WordPress. None of it makes sense together unless you get the common thread: someone had a problem, and I showed up and fixed it. Now I do that with AI agents for small and medium businesses across Europe.
Photographed outdoors to seem like a well-rounded person
Why hire me instead of a bigger company?
Because I'm the one who actually does the work. No project managers, no handoffs, no junior developers figuring it out on your dime. You talk to me, I set up your system, I make sure it runs.
I've been building software professionally since 2005. Not just one kind — I've built iOS apps, language tools, real-time transit systems, databases with billions of rows, backup infrastructure for one of the biggest websites on the internet, and a privacy-focused file transfer startup. Every project was different. Every client had different needs. That's the point.
An accounting firm has nothing in common with an auto repair shop. A dental practice works completely differently from a marketing agency. I've worked across enough industries to walk into any business, ask the right questions, and figure out where AI can actually save you time and money — and where it can't.
I also started my career as a journalist. That means I know how to listen, how to ask follow-up questions, and how to explain technical things without jargon. You won't need a translator to work with me.
What 20 years of building stuff looks like
I started freelancing in 2005, before I'd even finished my journalism degree. A language software company needed a Lithuanian spellchecker — I built one. A transport tech company needed real-time bus tracking for 10 cities — I built that too. The national language institute needed a dictionary app for three operating systems. Different clients, different tech stacks, different problems every time. That hasn't changed in 20 years.
In 2012, MIT Media Lab hired me as their tech lead to build and run Media Cloud — one of the world's largest open-source news analysis platforms, in partnership with Harvard. I wasn't a researcher. I was the engineer who built and maintained everything. A 30+ terabyte PostgreSQL cluster. Data pipelines processing articles in 20+ languages. Search across hundreds of millions of documents. Servers, deployments, CI/CD, the whole stack. The researchers did the research; I built the machine they did it on. That platform gets cited in 600+ academic papers and was referenced by the New York Times — because the software works.
What matters for you: I spent a decade as the person responsible for making everything run. Not just the code — the infrastructure, the budgets, the vendor relationships, the team. When something broke at 2am, that was me. When the Gates Foundation needed a demo, also me.
After MIT, I joined Automattic — the company behind WordPress.com, which powers about 40% of all websites. I found $500,000 a year in wasted AWS spending and cut it. I made their backup system 26 times faster. I took a 15-year-old codebase with zero tests and upgraded it without breaking anything.
What matters for you: I don't over-build things. I look at what's there, find what's wasting money or time, and fix it. That's exactly what you need when someone's setting up automation for your business.
What working with me looks like
We start with a phone call. You tell me what's eating your time — maybe it's email, maybe it's invoicing, maybe it's something you haven't even thought to automate yet. I'll ask a lot of questions. I won't use words you need to Google.
If AI automation makes sense for your business, I'll tell you exactly what I'd set up, how long it'll take, and what it'll cost. If it doesn't make sense, I'll tell you that too. I'd rather lose a potential project than set something up that doesn't deliver.
I'm not locked into one tool or one approach. The AI world moves fast — what's best today might not be best in six months. I pick the right tool for your situation, set it up, train you on it, document everything, and hand it over. You own the whole thing when I'm done.
I'm based in Vilnius, Lithuania. I work with businesses all over Europe remotely, and I travel on-site for larger projects. Most of my clients are companies with 5 to 30 employees — big enough to have real operational pain, small enough that hiring a tech team doesn't make sense.
By the numbers
20+
years building software
10
years as tech lead at MIT
$500K/yr
in AWS costs cut at Automattic
26×
faster WordPress restores
Talks and published work
I've spoken at international tech conferences about practical engineering problems — how to manage database tables with billions of rows, that kind of thing. I also co-authored a peer-reviewed paper about the platform I built at MIT, because when 600+ researchers end up relying on your software, apparently someone has to write down how it works.
Conference speaker
Talked about dealing with gigantic database tables at PostgreSQL conferences in Singapore and Silicon Valley. Practical stuff, not theory.
Co-authored peer-reviewed paper
Published at AAAI (one of the top AI conferences) about Media Cloud — the open-source platform I engineered at MIT.
Software cited by the New York Times
Tools I built at MIT are used by journalists, academics, and policy teams in 50+ countries.
Want to work together?
Book a free 30-minute call. I'll ask about your business first — what you do, what's eating your time, what you've already tried. Then I'll tell you honestly whether AI automation is worth exploring. No jargon, no pitch.
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