Benjaminas joined Contrarian Ventures in June 2025 as the firm’s Data Scientist, anchoring the effort to turn raw information into a single, trusted source of truth. Based in Vilnius, he designs and maintains data pipelines, builds AI-driven automations, and experiments with cutting-edge LLM agents -freeing the team to spend less time on grunt work and more time on creative problem-solving.

Before Contrarian, Benjaminas spent three years in the UK as a Data Analyst and Operational Excellence Analyst across two companies, where he equipped commercial and ops teams with self-serve dashboards and insight tools. He holds an MMath & Physics from the University of Manchester, where hands-on projects applying machine learning in physics and dissecting GAN algorithms first sparked his fascination with data science and AI.

Fluent in English and Lithuanian, he draws on 7½ years living in England – and the friendships that came with it- to navigate multicultural environments. Outside work, you’ll find him lifting weights at the gym, reading a good book or strumming a guitar and slowly mastering the piano.

Driven by the conviction that we have only one planet to steward, Benjaminas is eager to harness data and AI in service of climate-tech founders tackling that exact challenge.