Apr 2021 – Sep 2025 · 4 yrs 5 mos

• Led a cross-functional engineering team of 3–8 at Vinted, guiding them through significant growth and transformation.
• Specialized in people leadership, delivery management, and process improvement to empower high-impact solutions.
• Managed the full engineer lifecycle: hiring, onboarding, 1:1s, coaching, performance management, and offboarding.
• Owned end-to-end delivery, including roadmap planning, estimation, progress tracking, reporting, and managing dependencies.
• Facilitated all major agile ceremonies—standups, retrospectives, sprint planning—to ensure alignment and continuous improvement.
• Continuously evaluated and enhanced team processes, introducing new practices to boost efficiency and performance.
• Collaborated with lead engineer to define technical vision and strategy, aligning with organizational goals.
• Successfully scaled the team from 3 to 8 engineers, fostering a diverse and inclusive environment (50/50 gender split).
• Guided the team from forming to high performance, enabling autonomy and self-sufficiency.
• Supported engineers’ career progression, with several advancing to senior or management roles.
• Focused on creating an environment where engineers could thrive, innovate, and deliver value while maintaining motivation and alignment.

Jan 2020 – Apr 2021 · 1 yr 3 mos

Mar 2018 – Apr 2021 · 3 yrs 1 mo

• Implemented insurance information systems for companies in Lithuania, Latvia, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, and South Africa.
• Progressed through roles: technical consultant/developer, team lead, offshore delivery manager, project manager, and product owner.
• Technical Consultant/Developer: Developed and customized insurance solutions in offshore teams to meet diverse client needs.
• Team Lead & Offshore Delivery Manager: Led offshore teams, coordinated closely with onsite consultants and product owners to deliver business solutions.
• Project Management: Managed complex, high-stakes projects, delivering them on time and demonstrating strong leadership and organizational skills.
• Product Owner: Transitioned to onsite product owner, collaborating directly with business stakeholders to translate business problems into technical requirements and solutions.
• Specialized in transforming business challenges into IT solutions through ongoing discussions, coaching, and consulting.
• Gained deep expertise in the insurance industry, leading and delivering long-term projects (2–4 years), with some programs lasting over a decade.
• Drove significant business and technology transformation within the insurance sector.

Jul 2008 – Feb 2018 · 9 yrs 7 mos · Vilnius, Lithuania

• Worldwide implementation of Tia Enterprise - a modern and flexible software for insurance business.
• Leading small and large teams, and projects in delivery of large scale international Insurance IT solutions.
• Product ownership including business analysis, estimating, planning, decision making, coaching and consulting.
• 5+ large scale high paced projects in Lithuania, Denmark, Iceland, Norway and Republic of South Africa.

Nov 2004 – Jul 2008 · 3 yrs 8 mos · Vilnius, Lithuania

• Development of web-based systems using XHTML/CSS/PHP/MySQL.