Evaldas Buinauskas
Search Staff Engineer at Vinted
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
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Top SchoolEvaldas Buinauskas is a seasoned database and search engineer with 11 years of experience building high-performance data systems and search infrastructure for market research and consumer platforms. Based in Vilnius, he currently focuses on search, observability, and performance at Vinted, where he migrated search logic to Rust, optimized Elasticsearch throughput, and built an open-source Elasticsearch DSL in Rust. He has a strong track record modernizing legacy data pipelines—moving indexing from cron jobs to streaming to cut item discoverability from minutes to seconds and shrink reprocessing from weeks to hours. Previously he led and grew a team at Euromonitor, standardizing data models, eliminating T-SQL technical debt, and delivering cloud-native services with CI/CD. Known for pragmatic mentorship and hands-on workshops, he blends deep database know-how with practical tooling to let non-technical teams influence search relevance and business metrics. A curious, active learner, he pairs analytical rigor with product-oriented engineering to turn data complexity into measurable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Kaunas University of TechnologyHighschool, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Highschool, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Kudirkos Naumiesčio Vinco Kudirkos Gimnazija
English, Lithuanian, German
Stackoverflow
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elasticsearch
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indexing
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Github Skills (188)
vector-search10
difference10
vector-database10
language-server-protocol10
vespa10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
tree-sitter10
languagetool10
rest10
ai10
search-engine10
observability10
java10
vector10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
vinted/elasticsearch-dsl-rs
Oct 2021 - Jan 2023
Strongly typed Elasticsearch DSL written in Rust
Contributions:131 reviews, 178 commits, 431 PRs in 1 year 2 months
elasticsearch-dslruststrongly-typed
vinted/kafka-connect-vespa
Jul 2023 - Sep 2025
Kafka Connect Vespa sink connector
Contributions:11 releases, 4 reviews, 48 PRs in 2 years 2 months
kafka-connectvespakafkavinted
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