Mentors & Experts
Mentoring is best described as an educational process when mentors share knowledge with the purpose of surfacing potential in their protégés.
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Dovilė Kurpytė-Lipnickė. Lecturer, CEO, Engineer. Vilnius Tech
Dovilė Kurpytė-Lipnickė
Lecturer, CEO, Engineer
Vilnius Tech
Dovilė has finished Electronic engineering BSc, MSc, and Management and Business administration studies. Experience in various tech projects, a founder of two tech start-ups, experience 13+ years. If you are interested in engineering, programming, your own business from conceptual to detailed level – have a chat.
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Virgita Abaravičiūtė. Vice President, Global Customer Operations. Adform Lithuania
Virgita Abaravičiūtė
Vice President, Global Customer Operations
Adform Lithuania
Have eight years’ work experience in the ad tech industry. Leading the Service organization consisting of 90+ talents. Helped individuals and leaders to grow within the company by focusing on their strengths and passion. Passionate about the leadership topic.
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Daiva Kaštelionė. Project manager. Zenitech
Daiva Kaštelionė
Project manager
Zenitech
Professional project manager +10 years managed different scale and technologies projects, using Agile and Waterfall project management methodologies. In a world where everyone is hugely busy, a project manager’s job of bringing a team together to work as one is far from easy. You might not have the specific skills or knowledge of each project member, but what is excellent at is seeing the bigger picture of how the jigsaw fits together and moving the right pieces to the right place at the right time. I want to encourage Woman Go Tech participants to dive deeper into PM’s profession and ready to share my experience.
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Julija Varneckienė. Director of Operations. CapitalBox (Multitude group)
Julija Varneckienė
Director of Operations
CapitalBox (Multitude group)
A systematic approach and broad knowledge in systems give me a chance to be a great addition to any company and bridge business with IT. I stand for customer experience, process optimization, and operational efficiency. I am onboarded when companies buy systems but do not know how to make them valuable. I do know. My more than ten years of experience administrating, developing, fixing, maintaining, and being a product owner for different systems gives a valuable understanding of a journey.
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Baran Ozkan. Co-founder & CEO. Flagright
Baran Ozkan
Co-founder & CEO
Flagright
Baran is an accomplished builder with a track record in Product Management and high-performance team building. Having worked across different geographies and cultures, successfully launched and scaled software products in fast-growth environments where fast-pace and continuous change were the norm.
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Miks Miķelsons. Program manager. Adform Lithuania
Miks Miķelsons
Program manager
Adform Lithuania
Project management professional with a background in finance and adtech. 10+ years of experience in leading business expansion projects and strategic product development in Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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Šarūnas Leonas. Development and Product Director. Visma Tech
Šarūnas Leonas
Development and Product Director
Visma Tech
Experienced C-Level Executive with a long working history in the financial services industry. Strong IT professional skilled in Business Processes, Agile, Scrum, Analytical Skills, project management, product ownership and lot more. I am oriented into Customer service first: delivering easy and friendly customer end solutions & products, aiming for fully automatic solutions. Always seeking for a long-term and reliable solutions.
Sharing, precision and passion in daily work are main factors that I always try to fulfill when working with team members and customers. Also, following best learning practice and personal experience from Scandinavian markets, I try to promise things that I am sure I will deliver. -
Lina Zubytė. Head of Quality. Doodle
Lina Zubytė
Head of Quality
Doodle
Lina Zubyte is a passionate Quality Advocate who loves to ask questions, test, collaborate with diverse
departments, and investigate issues. Lina has worked in companies of different sizes (large multinational
companies and startups), moved between countries for work, and has had to adapt quickly to get out of
her comfort zone. She shares her writings on all things quality at https://qualitybits.tech, and you can find
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Justina Vaitkienė. Senior developer. Ignitis group
Justina Vaitkienė
Senior developer
Ignitis group
I’m a senior Oracle developer. Nine years ago I started my career with Oracle technologies. In
this time I’ve worked on every step of software development from business needs analysis and
solution design to development and testing. I’m passionate about Agile and worked as a Scrum
master for a year and a half. Being a Scrum master and working in senior positions I was in a
mentoring role which made me realize that I really enjoy sharing my knowledge and gaining
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Darius Grinvaldas. Head of Model Risk & Validation department. Luminor Group
Darius Grinvaldas
Head of Model Risk & Validation department
Luminor Group
Experienced risk management professional with a demonstrated performance in leading
experts/teams/leaders in the financial services and modelling industry. Before Luminor, I have
worked for ten years in Danske Bank as expert and leader.
Have deep understanding of IRB (PD, LGD, EAD) area, including various business contexts,
methodological modelling considerations and regulatory environment challenges. Currently
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Andrius Didžiulis. Head of Analytics. Barbora
Andrius Didžiulis
Head of Analytics
Barbora
My decade long career is all about data. At first, I sold it, then produced it, eventually collected and analyzed it. Now, it is high time I started sharing my knowledge about this vast field with others.
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Vytenis Pakėnas. CEO. Lucid Agreements
Vytenis Pakėnas
CEO
Lucid Agreements
He is an entrepreneur by heart, identifying new opportunities in traditional sectors. Then he combines a fast-growing business with IT knowledge and long-term ambitions. Fast and standard iterations help to achieve common goals with the teams I lead.
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Vaidas Lauzeckas. CEO. Metasite Data Insights
Vaidas Lauzeckas
CEO
Metasite Data Insights
Vaidas, Founder of Metasite Data Insights, leads a small team that is passionate about working with numbers in all shapes and colors. By using the best products/tools in the market, we help companies to analyze and better understand their data. Analytics is often not the core business of an enterprise and it is normal that one may not know how to store/process data, ensure its quality or what instruments to choose for reporting. MDI provides a wide range of services: from classical data engineering to data warehouse building, dashboard development, authority reporting or more advanced topics like machine learning, revenue recognition & reconciliation and more.
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Udeme Udofia. Data Scientist. TELESOFTAS
Udeme Udofia
Data Scientist
TELESOFTAS
I am a Data Scientist with vast experience across different teams and sectors like Oil and Gas,
Education, Telecommunication, Health, Banking and Finance, IT. I am passionate about the
growth of Data enthusiasts and helping them to jump start their career in the world of Data
Science.My interests cuts across sharing my Tech experience with IT practitioners in order to help
them with making the right decisions and choices in their Tech career. -
Mantas Venslauskas. Data analytics projects lead. ESO
Mantas Venslauskas
Data analytics projects lead
ESO
My professional career with data started via Tesonet and continued in Exacaster. Now, I am in ESO, leading data projects. Started Data Guild (internal data analytics learning initiative) and Data Talks (internal data conferences). Also, I am one of data analytics lectors at Vilnius Coding School.
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Tadas Bružikas. Manager of Data Science & Analytics, Marketing. Vinted
Tadas Bružikas
Manager of Data Science & Analytics, Marketing
Vinted
I am particularly interested in using data to accelerate the company growth. To me, well-functioning econometric and machine learning models are simply the means to an end rather than the goal itself.
I’m looking forward to sharing my experience and knowledge with smart and curious minds! Currently, I’m leading the marketing data science & analytics teams at Vinted where we ensure that all decisions in the company are data-driven. No matter if it’s a multi-million euro marketing investment or a decision which TV ad to air – data science and machine learning are at the core of our decisions.
Next to the big data and complex models, I’m growing the team and helping fellow data scientists and leads to improve as professionals. Having a long-term plan and strategy, enabling others, and removing blockers for them to do their best is are main responsibilities.
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Rūta Vitaitė. Project Manager assistant. HENT AS
Rūta Vitaitė
Project Manager assistant
HENT AS
I have 8 years of experience in Project Management in the building construction industry. Graduated transport engineering and started my career in Lithuania as a design engineer in aluminium facade company and climbed my steps from design engineer to a Project Manager. During my career I was living and working in Finland, Sweden and Denmark and have been a part of the biggest projects in Scandinavia. Currently living and working in Copenhagen and building 40.000m2 Comfort Hotel Airport.
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Ayman Arandi. Director and founder. Penki Pojuciai, Lt Iris Solutions, Ps
Ayman Arandi
Director and founder
Penki Pojuciai, Lt. Iris Solutions, Ps
Ayman Arandi is a tech entrepreneur with experience in designing, launching, and running startups. He co-founded Iris Solutions in 2012, currently the leading provider of interactive sensory technology in the MENA region, with more than 50,000 children and adult users around the world. Iris has been recognised by Google, the World Economic Forum (WEF), and a number of global heads of states as a 4th industrial revolution start-up. Prior to founding Iris, Ayman worked in telecom, banking, and development sectors.Ayman worked as Global Director and Accelerator co-Lead for the Hult Prize Foundation, the world’s largest engine for the creation of youth-generated for-good, for-profit enterprise. Ayman also served as a curator of the Ramallah Hub of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, a country chair in Palestine for the Global Dignity Initiative by Prince Haakon of Norway. Currently, he is on the advisory board of the Engineering faculty of An-Najah University. Ayman is also a founding member of NEWPal, and a fellow of KAAYIA, YouthActionNet, GES, and GE Programs. Ayman holds BSc in Computer Engineering from An-Najah University, an MSc in Management, Information Systems and Innovation from London School of Economics and Political Science, and a diploma in Negotiation from Harvard Law School – NSI Program.
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Katrė Zienkaitė. Senior Product Designer. Shopify
Katrė Zienkaitė
Senior Product Designer
Shopify
I am a Product Designer with a passion for research, solving problems, all sorts of mapping, reading, and over the top fashion. Currently, I work at Shopify lowering the bar for entrepreneurship.
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Renata Urbonė. Co-owner, manager. LEANERIA, ESPERONUS
Renata Urbonė
Co-owner, manager
LEANERIA, ESPERONUS
Renata Urbone is change maker, entrepreneurship and innovation expert with +20 years of experience in ICT & consulting. Expert Evaluator of projects and applications for financing, business ideas.
Specialties: digitization, entrepreneurship, innovations, reforms planning, economic analysis, strategy consulting, capacity building, project management, ICT business development, analysis, etc.
Make things happen and perform to get them done.
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Vytautas Ašeris. Director of Engineering. Vinted
Vytautas Ašeris
Director of Engineering
Vinted
Experience gained from a variety of different roles (as an analyst, software developer, team manager, department manager, tribe coach and director of engineering) allowed me to clearly understand that life-long learning is the common denominator in any field, let alone – in IT. I strongly believe that the greatest success is achieved by those teams and those individuals, who not only possess great skills and drive but also put a great deal of effort into their development and improvement. Only then we have a chance to succeed in this ever-changing and evolving world of IT. And some magic of Emotional Intelligence on top – as a secret ingredient, which (still) tends to get overlooked.
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Agnė Balkevičiūtė Lajienė. Director for strategic initiatives. 1clickfactory
Agnė Balkevičiūtė Lajienė
Director for strategic initiatives
1clickfactory
I am fascinated by constant change, an educated workforce, an international spirit, and endless IT opportunities. I help businesses grow. I am good at identifying the core challenge, creating strategies, building infrastructures to release services, and attracting and maintaining customers in both local and international markets.
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Marija Velžė. Engineering Manager. TransferGo
Marija Velžė
Engineering Manager
TransferGo
I have a master’s degree in Software Engineering and 10+ years of experience in Product and People Management. The world of IT caught my eye when I was still in middle school and this career path seemed as an obvious choice, however during my studies I have realised that I don’t want to be a software developer. This made me question my decision until I’ve learned that IT is not just development. Even though I have found my place – the journey wasn’t easy. My goal as a mentor is to help others like me to find their way in the world of Technologies with less stress and self-doubt.
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Karolis Grigas. Developer. Qoorio
Karolis Grigas
Developer
Qoorio
Developer with more than 10 years of experience, with field knowledge of team leading and
mentoring, both within and outside companies. Most of my technical experience is with web
and anything that happens in browsers. Trained and spent most of my career outside
Lithuania.
What is Mentoring?
There are many talented people left without professional support, which often results in loss of motivation. Mentors make sure that doesn’t happen!
Mentoring is best described as an educational process when mentors share knowledge with the purpose of surfacing potential in their protégés.
Mentors are not school teachers. They’re voluntary professionals that are motivated to pass on knowledge and contribute to Women Go Tech’s talent pool.
The process is based on guidance. Mentoring only serves as a vehicle towards self-realization.
The beauty of the Women Go Tech Acceleration program is that it’s a two-way learning experience, meaning that both parties will gain invaluable knowledge.