Gytis Repečka

IT Solution Architect and seasoned data professional with 14+ years of experience designing and implementing enterprise data solutions, including data warehouses, data lakes and data lakehouses. Extensive hands-on experience with PostgreSQL and Teradata databases; data integration tools; bare-metal, virtualized and cloud infrastructure.

I am strong open source advocate promoting, documenting, teaching about and contributing to open source software and open hardware projects. Key interests are data architecture, personal privacy and security, databases, backend development, internet of things (IoT), automotive diagnostics and telemetry.

🦸 My superpower is conveying complex problems and explaining tech solutions addressing them to different audiences
💬 Ask me about data modeling, databases, data engineering, Linux infrastructure, open source software and open hardware
📫 Contact me via e-mail gytis@repecka.com
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🔭 Inretio is my small business company providing IT consulting services, building data-driven solutions and performing smart automotive diagnostics
🤝 My name pronouns: ´giːtis repetʃ´ka with stress on "i:" (long) and "a" (short), also notice that "c" is written with caron.

Certification

Certified Data Vault 2.0 Practitioner (DataVaultAlliance, July 14, 2022) - show credential
Arduino Certification on Electronics and Physical Computing (Arduino Education Team, 2022-09-07)

Personal Projects

Bouncing Logo - Classic TV and DVD player screensaver app for smart devices (currently Tizen TVs and projectors by Samsung)
API server (coming soon) - minimalistic API server with public and protected (external OAuth login) endpoints, PostgreSQL connection pooler
webimg - image manipulation (currently - watermarking) library for web written in Go lang

Open Source Contributions

Golang

WriteFreely: Fix login with Gitea OAuth: external user ID not recorded (Nov 28, 2021)
AWS Lambda Go sample function improvements: remove redundant call to GetAccountSettings API (callLambda function within init) and fixed misleading error message in TestMain function. (May 3, 2021)
Add Gitea OAuth login and account management in WriteFreely (Apr 3, 2020)

PHP

WordPress plugin boilerplate improvement - add shortcode support (Jul 17, 2020)

Shell

My theme for Bash-it shell prompt customizer: theme which shows Python venv name and active executor version number (see examples) (Nov 6, 2024).
WriteFreely build on CentOS: fix finding of lessc binary (May 2, 2019)

Other

WriteFreely translation to Lithuanian (May 7, 2019)