Jan 2018 – Dec 2021 · 3 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• I came to California for the Gold Rush and was lucky to find Uber and Instacart. Lately, I've been betting on more opportunities:
• MeruHealth - 2019 - a digital clinic for greater mental health
• Lime - 2018, via Angel List - micro-mobility made simple
• AXDraft - 2019 - error-free legal documents faster. Exit 2020
• Eddy Travels - 2019 - AI travel assistant. Exit 2022
• Sheltr - 2019 - effortless home maintenance. Exit 2019
• ZitiCity - 2018 - same-day delivery for e-commerce in Europe. Shut down 2022 Aug

Feb 2014 – Mar 2022 · 8 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco

• Senior Engineering Manager, Fulfillment (2018 June - 2022 March)
• Core Fulfillment flows (from Picking to Delivering) & Retailer integrations
• Impact: $1.4 CM /delivery, 1% found rate, alcohol delivery regulations compliance, retailer special projects & support. Teams run over 200 A/B tests.
• Managed up to 22 engineers (started with 5), hired 19, and trained a manager.
• Managed 2 separate distributed teams, worked with up to 5 PMs simultaneously
• Improved engineering practices: code reviews, on-call, QA, and staging environments across departments
• Growth engineer (2018 Jan - June):
• Proposed & implemented abandoned cart push (+0.5% in absolute activation rate)
• Spec'ed and implemented app download nudge (+90% in app downloads)
• Mobile roadmap management (2017-2018)
• Coordinating projects for a small mobile team
• Assisting feature teams with mobile requirements, API and UI design, API implementation
• Lead Android developer for consumer app (2014-2017)
• Best app of 2015, Best in class for Material Design, featured and Editor Choice app, 4.5 rating
• On-boarded & mentored 3 engineers
• Account manager for Google ($210 000 obtained for app promotion, PR, coordinating projects)
• Sourced 4 Android hires

Aug 2012 – Jan 2014 · 1 yr 5 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Supporting Uber customer app (bug fixes and improvements). Done 12 releases in 10 months
• In a team of two engineers rewrote client app and implemented new design
• Sourced 4 hires (1 Android, 3 dev-ops). Helped to start the Lithuanian engineering office.

Feb 2010 – Jul 2010 · 5 mos

• Worked on the integration layer between Kiva warehouse automation system and Kiva's customer. Technologies: Java, Mule ESB, JMS, XSD, JUnit, Maven, Accurev
• Short-term contract position, left to join a University full-time.

Oct 2008 – Feb 2010 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Worked in back-office bank securities accounting system support and development project for major Lithuanian bank as a developer and a technical analyst. Technologies: J2EE, Spring, Hibernate, Oracle PL/SQL, SonicMQ, dwr (AJAX), jQuery, CSS, HTML.
• Tasks included: system and business requirement investigation, new component prototyping, data mapping, and transfer, design, and implementation of new components, working directly with the customer stakeholders.

Oct 2006 – Jul 2007 · 9 mos

• Develop and maintain a news site for real estate developers. Manage a content team of 3 contractors. Technologies: PHP4, MySQL, CSS, HTML.