Tomas Peluritis
Data Engineer | Technical Leadership | Uncle Data
Contact Information
Email: tomas1991@gmail.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/tomaspeluritis
GitHub: github.com/uncledata
Substack: uncledata.substack.com
Podcast: Uncle Data Podcast (Spotify)
Summary
Data professional with a diverse journey from Data Analyst to Data Engineer, including roles as Team Lead and Head of Data. Driven by continuous improvement, optimal solution design, and problem-solving. Expertise in data pipelines, orchestration (Airflow), SQL, Python (PySpark), and data warehousing (Snowflake, Redshift). Proven ability to lead, mentor, and communicate effectively. Passionate about side projects and exploring new technologies.
Experience
Head of Data
Mediatech
November 2024 - Present
Ensuring the data team scales effectively, maintaining code quality, delivering business value, and managing technical debt. Leading a team of 10 (direct and indirect reports).
Focus: Team Leadership, Scalability, Code Quality, Technical Debt Management, Value Delivery
Data Engineer
Wix
August 2023 - October 2024
Owner of Data Collection for AB testing platform. Worked on internal data lineage solution (parsing logs, gathering information from different tables and using SQLGlot). Optimized and stabilized existing solutions and added modern logging solutions.
Tools: Apache Spark, Apache Airflow, Trino, Python, SQL
Founder
Uncle Data
Present
Writing posts (Substack) and hosting a podcast (Spotify) on various data-related topics.
Head of Data
kevin.
March 2022 - June 2023 (1 year 4 months)
Expanded the Data Team, created a Data Platform (Snowflake, dbt, Airflow), developed data models and ingestion frameworks, ensured data quality, set up CI/CD (Bitbucket), and improved data documentation/literacy.
Senior Data Engineer / Team Lead
HomeToGo
June 2021 - March 2022 (10 months)
Led the central DWH team. Heavily involved in Redshift to Snowflake migration. Migrated data pipelines to Airflow 2 following best practices. Provided guidance on pipeline design.
Tools: SQL, Python, dbt, Airflow, Redshift, Snowflake
Data Engineering Team Lead
Wix.com
February 2020 - June 2021 (1 year 5 months)
Led a team of ~14 Data Developers (LT/UA/IL). Provided technical consultation, guidance, mentoring. Conducted introductory PySpark course.
Tools: Airflow, PySpark, Presto, Python, GCP
Data Developer
Wix.com
September 2018 - February 2020 (1 year 6 months)
Created ETLs with PySpark, developed SQL queries with Presto, automated tasks with Python.
Previous Roles (ETL/SQL Focused)
- Developer @ Visma Lietuva (Nov 2016 - Aug 2018): Data Mining/Forecasting (Python), EDW modeling (Data Vault), ETL development.
- ETL Developer @ SEB (Feb 2016 - Nov 2016): Informatica ETL, DIH/DQ tool setup.
- BI Developer @ JSC "Finance engineering" (Jul 2013 - Jan 2016): DWH, ETL, OLAP, Reporting (SQL Server, SharePoint, PowerPivot/View).
- Business Analyst @ Seesam Insurance AS (Nov 2012 - Jul 2013)
- Marketing Manager @ UAB STUDIO MODERNA FASHION GROUP (Jul 2012 - Dec 2012)