
Haroldas Mackevicius
Verified Expert in Engineering
Full-stack Data Specialist and Developer
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Toptal member since November 10, 2025
Haroldas is a full-stack data specialist with over eight years of experience in data analytics, machine learning engineering, data engineering, and analytics engineering. He has led and delivered machine learning projects that drastically improved KPIs. Currently, Haroldas helps startups that want to become more data-driven and find product-market fit by engineering data pipelines that combine multiple data sources and deliver insights through analyses, dashboards, and modelling.
Portfolio
Experience
- SQL - 8 years
- Python - 8 years
- Analytics - 8 years
- Statistics - 8 years
- Supervised Learning - 5 years
- Machine Learning - 5 years
- Data Engineering - 3 years
- Data Build Tool (dbt) - 2 years
Preferred Environment
Slack, Cursor AI, Visual Studio Code (VS Code), Microsoft Teams
The most amazing...
...thing I've developed is a machine learning model for classifying counterfeit items that reduced user reports by over 75%.
Work Experience
Visiting Lecturer
ISM University of Management and Economics
- Developed and led an introduction to data science course for second-year bachelor students of the Economics and Analytics program.
- Created the course materials, i.e., Jupyter notebooks for lectures and seminars, three homework assignments on publicly available datasets, a group project assignment, and two exams.
- Guided students on group projects focused on experiencing the full data science project cycle, including dataset selection, data cleaning and preparation, model training, and results display in a dashboard.
Senior Data Scientist
Vinted
- Reduced user reports of counterfeit items by 75% by fine-tuning and deploying a BERT-based model that classified counterfeit items from titles and descriptions.
- Developed a machine learning classifier and the data pipelines for filtering out malicious accounts from company metrics, guaranteeing interpretability of metrics across the various domains within the company, e.g. finance and marketing.
- Headed internal efficiency projects within the data science and analytics function, such as Jupyter Notebooks peer review, automated via GitHub Actions.
Experience
LLM-based Data Science Learning Tool
Education
Bachelor's Degree in Economics and Politics
ISM University of Management and Economics - Vilnius, Lithuania
Skills
Tools
Looker, Slack, Microsoft Teams
Languages
SQL, Python
Frameworks
Spark, Streamlit
Platforms
Docker, Visual Studio Code (VS Code)
Other
Analysis, Machine Learning, Analytics, Supervised Learning, Statistics, Data Build Tool (dbt), Data Engineering, Economics, Natural Language Processing (NLP), LangChain, Education, Cursor AI, University Teaching
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