Throughout my career, I have spent many years as a Staff or Senior Engineer. Even as a senior leader, I continued coding on the side just for my own joy. My main area of expertise is mobile engineering (native Android and iOS). However, in recent years, I have also been focusing on backend engineering and system design. This allows me to have a holistic understanding of how things should work. The main programming languages I work with are Kotlin, Swift, Python, Java, and PHP.
I have been part of scientific teams in both polar and tropical regions of our planet. I have worked on researching Arctic lakes in the tundra of Svalbard, as well as studying poison frogs in the Amazon jungle. My unique skill set in software engineering and mathematics has allowed me to make significant contributions to biological research. My recent work includes the creation of a neural network capable of distinguishing frog behavior based on bioacoustic data.
I have spent my entire career in startup environments, which allowed me to understand how the business is built from scratch and what caveats might await you in different company stages. I have been a part both of small and big startups (heading towards the unicorn zone). Seen both success and failure stories, observed closely both blitzscaling and mass layoffs. Operating amid ambiguity, intensity, and balancing speed with business and engineering quality is nothing new to me.
I have built multiple engineering teams and business units that were always crème de la crème in terms of performance across all the companies I worked at. My strongest skill is bringing out the absolute best in individuals and teams I am working with. I have raised and mentored many Senior, Staff engineers, Engineering Managers etc.
In every organization, I helped create strong, safe, and motivated environments. My unorthodox mix of assertive and servant leadership elevated every single company I was a part of. Additionally, I have represented my past companies at major conferences as a keynote speaker and even organized my own events.
I am always keen to learn something new, therefore I will just leave this section empty for the future.
I have joined kevin. to found and lead a cross-functional mobile R&D team which would act as a research unit for creating new products, POCs etc. The main aim of our team is to diversify company services and revenue streams moving forward. As a founding member I took my tools and started coding, hiring and do whatever needed to establish and grow the team. In the next couple of years my team was responsible for raising more than 100M$ in total and I have raised to the top to lead the engineering.
Started working as a Senior iOS Developer. However, after six months, I switched platforms and, in March 2019, began leading the Android team. Over time, I was promoted to lead the entire Mobile department. Main responsibilities included improving the Android technical infrastructure and architecture, managing an international Agile team, conducting technical research, hiring candidates, and mentoring team members.
I was hired as a part time mobile developer to create and maintain a proptech application on both iOS and Android. With different changes and some breaks I spent in the company almost 3 years. Most of the time I was working as a solo developer until later I got some people to mentor.
This was a starting point of my mobile career. I got an offer, because I did write that I do not eat lunch in my CV. I remember that I woke up in my campus bed, I could barely open my eyes after the party last night and then I saw an email from this company. I thought that it is yet another mailing list, but boom. I really did like working there, but it was hard to combine double degree studies with a full time work, so we have parted ways.
I was still studying in 10th grade and have sold my first IT startup to this company. I was hired to maintain that startup further, got my first laptop ever (as I did code my startup just on my mobile phone and towns library computer) and I will be forever grateful for the opportunity I got. Who knows where I would be today as I was not looking at IT seriously because all engineers seemed to be geeky noobs.
Responsible for both technical planning and implementation, as well as UX. Built fully decoupled and modular flows using a custom Redux-based architecture. Developed intuitive DSL testing with Kaspresso, Turbine, and more. Implemented streamlined CI/CD with Fastlane, AWS services, and advanced security features. Created numerous custom UI components during the development process - many of which are now earning stars on GitHub and claps on Medium.com.
I was hired to lead the development of one of the most advanced photo processing applications in the world. In this role I have mastered Core Graphics, Core Image, GLSL skills and we managed to release note me. application to the public. It was definitely a very interesting time and project as I also got an opportunity to participate in investment shows and be able to talk to famous angel and seed investors.
I came to work here as an iOS developer. However, I remember my first ever meeting with my project manager - he was like "we need to do this Android app", and I was like - "well, I never even built the Android sample project". So it was my first ever Android development experience.
I did code different websites for clients, mainly coding with PHP and Javascript. Projects were usually small and I was the only dedicated person to do them. Nice way to add some revenue for my student-life expenses back then.
As part of an international research team, I am responsible for analyzing bioacoustic data collected from passive and active audio recorders. For this project, I have created a convolutional neural network specifically designed to analyze amphibian behavior based on audio cues. Besides data analysis, my role includes collecting data from sites in the Nouragues Nature Reserve in the Amazon jungle and supporting fellow scientists in the field. The project is facilitated under the contract with Vilnius University.
I did always dream to teach other people, but the idea of teaching children at school did scare me a bit. But I got a proposition to join a team of professionals and share my knowledge with adults who wanted to change their specialities to what I instantly agreed! I did help to create a teaching program which was approved by the Lithuanian Ministry of Education. I tried to apply my 6 years (at that time) of mobile engineering experience. I did leave this endeavour because of a possibility to do the research in the High Arctic (experience above).
Focus on one thing they say.. Biology was always more of a hobby for me, but hobbies sometimes lead to the great things. Me and a few other lucky scientists were selected to join the prestigious Svalbard Polar Institute and research Arctic lakes in winter conditions (at 78 degrees North!). It was definitely the best time of my life, although the world was crippled by the Covid-19 pandemics. Drilling ice in -35C windy weather, trying to preserve plankton samples from freezing, driving a snowmobile, snowboarding glaciers with a rifle behind my back (against the polar bears). And sure - doing science!