Saulius Kolesinskas
About Saulius Kolesinskas
Saulius Kolesinskas is an Engineering Manager at Vinted, where he leads a team focused on developing a cross-platform Design System. He has a background in software engineering and experience with various technologies, including Kotlin and SQL-on-Hadoop engines.
Current Role at Vinted
Saulius Kolesinskas serves as an Engineering Manager at Vinted since 2021. In this role, he leads a team dedicated to the development and maintenance of a cross-platform Design System. His responsibilities include overseeing engineering processes and ensuring that the team meets its objectives across various platforms, including Web, iOS, and Android.
Previous Experience in Software Engineering
Before joining Vinted, Kolesinskas held multiple positions in the software engineering field. He worked at Adform as a Software Engineer from 2017 to 2018 and as an API Solutions Consultant from 2016 to 2017. He also served as a Javascript Engineer at Adform from 2014 to 2016. His early career included a role as a Service Analyst at Barclays from 2013 to 2014.
Technical Skills and Projects
Kolesinskas has experience with the Kotlin programming language and has created PrefeRx, a reactive SharedPreferences library for Kotlin. He has utilized Apache Zeppelin for interactive data analysis and has worked with Apache Spark and Apache HBase for computing and serving metrics. Additionally, he has designed an Apache Kafka-based data ingestion pipeline and contributed to open source projects on GitHub.
Contributions to Data Analysis and Big Data
Kolesinskas evaluated SQL-on-Hadoop engines for computing business metrics and participated in the Big Data Strategy 2015 conference in Vilnius. He has experience in rewriting a MySQL-based analytics solution to manage large data volumes, demonstrating his capability in handling complex data challenges.
Team Management Experience
Throughout his career, Kolesinskas has managed teams that work across multiple platforms. His leadership experience includes guiding teams in the development of software solutions that cater to diverse user needs and ensuring effective collaboration among team members.