Dainius Jocas
I'm an experienced software engineer specialised in systems for natural language processing (NLP) and full-text search.
Experience
CTO
Guiding software development projects from architectural decisions all the way to contributing code.
Managing innovation initiatives and taking care of technical debt.
Overseeing open source software initiatives.
Software Engineer
Design and implementation of various semantic text search and NLP focused systems.
Leading the development of a large scale news crawling and analysis system.
Implementation of DevOps practices.
Software Architect
Deployment of a television audience measurement system.
Design and implementation of workflow automation tools.
Maintenance of legacy software systems.
Intern
Development of an invariant detection system for server-side JavaScript applications.
Oracle DBA
Administration of Oracle 11g databases.
Education
Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Vilnius University
Books
Skills
- Good software development starts with building a clear understanding of the problem you want to solve.
- Manage complexity by reusing "boring technologies" and innovating only where it makes sense.
- Software projects rarely fail because they are too small; they fail because they get too big.
- The hard limit to system complexity is not the quantity of engineering effort, but its quality.
- Software is about developing knowledge more than writing code.
Open-source contributions
- Lucene grep or lmgrep
- jackson-jq wrapper for Clojure
- Lithuanian language suport for Lucene and Elasticsearch.
- AWS Lambda Layer with borkdude/babashka.
- A version conflict resolution fix for the Kafka Connect Elasticsearch sink connector.
- AWS Lambda support for borkdude/babashka.
- A Clojure library to fetch data from Elasticsearch as a lazy sequence.
- Lithuanian language support for Hugo Academic.
- Netlify form handler for the Hugo Academic.
- Contributions to the tokenmill/beagle library.
- Homepage for the Vilnius "Geležinis vilkas" Rotaract project "Sėkmės inkilėlis".
- Bugfix for the Lucene extension for Quarkus
Think Like a Relevance Engineer - Elasticsearch
The longer you play the long game, the easier it is to play and the greater the rewards.
Interests
Apart from being a software engineer, I try to keep learning new things ranging from an advanced basketball statistics to grilling and trying out sports such as beach voleyball. My motto is that I have to go to sleep at least a little bit more clever than when I woke up.
I'm a member of the Vilnius Rotaract club "Geležinis Vilkas"
Also, I'm a proud owner of three lovely Bernese Mountain Dogs. Follow our adventures on meskuzeme.eu.
