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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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Alius Petraška. Application Architect. IBM iX
Alius Petraška
Application Architect
IBM iX
I am husband, father, passionate full-stack developer & MTB bike rider fueled by curiosity & driven by problem-solving who cares deeply about Mobile Apps & beautiful pixel perfect Web Design, elegant code, and the intersection of the two. I love the challenge of solving problems and dreaming up original ideas that get me out of bed in the morning and keep me working late at night. The biggest passion for me is about delivering high quality products with rich front-end technologies. I’m constantly trying to learn new skills and technologies and add them to what I already know.
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Andrius Veinšreideris. System Support Team Lead. TransUnion
Andrius Veinšreideris
System Support Team Lead
TransUnion
I turned to IT 25 years ago, so I saw its progress. What has happened during this time is truly impressive and it is probably difficult to find an area that would have improved so much and influenced other technologies. I have improved together and in various roles, from deep technical, to process management.
Now I work as a team leader helping people discover themselves in the IT world. It is an equally interesting experience. I am happy to see someone growing and improving with confidence, but at the same time – making the environment better.
My strength is to talk about IT understandably.
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Šarūnas Matulevičius. Head of Product. CoinGate
Šarūnas Matulevičius
Head of Product
CoinGate
I am product management professional working exclusively in FinTech sector for the past five years. My current position is Head of Product at cryptocurrency payments solution provider CoinGate. My experience consists of working in both startups and corporations, all of these operating in international markets. I have experience in leading international teams and products. Part of my experience was gained in Silicon Valley, while residing in West Union’s office in San Francisco. Besides the professional domain, I have substantial experience in writing, public speaking and involvement in voluntary or non-profit organizations or movements.
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Gil Tayar. Senior Software Architect. Roundforest
Gil Tayar
Senior Software Architect
Roundforest
From the old days of DOS, to the contemporary world of Software Testing, I was, am and always
will be a software developer. I have in the past co-founded WebCollage, survived the bubble
collapse of 2000 and worked on various big cloudy projects at Wix. My current passion is figuring
out how to test software, which I have turned into my main job as Senior Architect at Applitools. I
religiously test all my software, from the early days as a junior software developer to the current
days at Applitools. Unfortunately for me, I haven’t yet answered the big question of my life – I still
doesn’t know whether static languages or dynamic languages are best. -
Ignas Vosylius. CEO. Axioma Metering
Ignas Vosylius
CEO
Axioma Metering
I have started my path in Tech from sales in small start-up and as in any start-up, I had a chance
to contribute to wide range of activities. Throughout the years my responsibilities grew together
with the company, I was responsible for export, client relationships, marketing, business
development, procurement and product development. Recently I have begun managing the
production company which is in rapid growth phase and in the need of transformation in many
areas of business. Although changes in Tech companies always gets down to technical
solutions, it is very important to look at these changes from the point of view of the final user. I
believe, that I have an ability to talk about things slightly differently than it is accustom in tech
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Vitalij Kacanovskij. Scrum Master and QA mentor. Freelancer
Vitalij Kacanovskij
Scrum Master and QA mentor
Freelancer
More than 4 years experience in QA and now moving my Scrum Master carrier. Used to work in Nasdaq, Cognizant and Amadeus. Currently I am freelancing and have my own business.
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Mario Bañares Colastra. Product Manager. Wix
Mario Bañares Colastra
Product Manager
Wix
I moved to Lithuania 6 years ago from Canary Islands. I am a Telecommunication Engineer that slowly fall in love with Product Management. There is no better feeling that see a product succeed and be used by many different people around the world. I’ve been working 5+ years in Product Management, in both B2B and B2C. I am very happy to be able to help others and share all my knowledge and experience.
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Daumantas Matulis. Head of Engineering Unit. Axioma Metering
Daumantas Matulis
Head of Engineering Unit
Axioma Metering
I have been recently promoted to Head of Engineering Unit of our company’s research and
development department. I am very motivated to learn new things and to achieve successful
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Aistė Stanionytė. Director – Quality Assistance. Genius Sports
Aistė Stanionytė
Director – Quality Assistance
Genius Sports
As a QA Director I own Group QA Strategy and work with CTO to align it with Group
Development Principles, and with Delivery Directors to make sure QA Strategy is well
understood and they are supported in its implementation. Additionally, I’m a functional
manager for QA Leads and Automation Leads in all our development hubs in London,
Medellin, Sofia, Vilnius, and Tallinn. I enjoy not only the constant professional challenges I
face at my role, but also helping other people grow. -
Aistė Sutkuvienė. Junior Supplier Quality assurance specialist. HELLA LITHUANIA
Aistė Sutkuvienė
Junior Supplier Quality assurance specialist
HELLA LITHUANIA
Quality department was the place I found myself in more than 3 years ago and I could not be
happier. I have started my journey in the field of industrial technology with entrepreneur’s soul
and high motivation to seek the best quality. My experience with international companies
allows me to progress successfully as a young specialist and get acquainted with
breakthrough technologies. -
Julija Sabonienė. Supply chain manager. HELLA LITHUANIA
Julija Sabonienė
Supply chain manager
HELLA LITHUANIA
In the last few years of my career I realized, that all the time I was driven by challenges. Never chose an easy way to pass through, but this is who I am. I found myself in tech industry more than 6 Years ago and never had doubts about this decision. Started from planning the production and progressing to quality assurance, I’ve obtained knowledge and experience and still I can say that I’m learning something new every day.
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Edvinas Baublys. Team Lead Senior Software Developer. Nortal
Edvinas Baublys
Team Lead Senior Software Developer
Nortal
I’m experienced software developer and enthusiast with proven expertise in using new tools and technical developments to drive improvements throughout a entire software development life cycle. By working in a different business areas for a past several years and creating software solutions for a different businesses of the Europe, I got a good understanding how agile and software development do match each other and how distributed teams deliver a products. Growing the team, improving process of development, setting team goals and being hands-on in coding, that are the things I like to do.
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Jelena Iljina. IT Project Manager. link protect GmbH
Jelena Iljina
IT Project Manager
link protect GmbH
I am a professional Project manager benefiting from more than ten years of successful control of all phases of IT projects. As a project manager in IT projects in the last ten years, I have seen and experienced a lot. And I have been passing on this knowledge for several years as a colleague, mentor, and friend. I use all existing project management models to select the appropriate approach for each project. Professionally, I have PMP and ITIL v.3 certifications, experience in Scrum and Agile; degrees in IT Engineering and IT Project Management.
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Danil Michailovas. Agile Coach. Agile Coach
Danil Michailovas
Agile Coach
Agile Coach
People are not “resources.” This belief led me on a 15 years journey of being a Developer, then Scrum Master, and later Head of Department. As of today, I’m helping companies to reach their goals as a professional Agile Coach. I aim to impact businesses and individuals to adopt leadership practices that are profitable and work well with human beings, i.e., people – you and me.
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Igne Degutytė. Front-end engineer. Convious
Igne Degutytė
Front-end engineer
Convious
I am a front-end developer at Convious. Since my mid-twenties and studies in Berlin, I have been active in the field and gradually developed from a more generic full-stack developer to a front-end developer. It inspires me because of the collision between logic programming and its visual result. I value team spirit and personal development.
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Eglė Vaiciukynaitė. Digital researcher, Manager of Erasmus+ project, (Neuro) marketing freelancer. Research, teaching, freelancer
Eglė Vaiciukynaitė
Digital researcher, Manager of Erasmus+ project, (Neuro) marketing freelancer
Research, teaching, freelancer
I am a researcher and lecturer at the Digitalisation research group, Kaunas University of Technology. I work on national and international research and study projects related to digitalization in business, customer emotions, and customer engagement behavior for more than six years. Currently, I am working on three research and study projects: as a leader for the international Erasmus+ entitled BSR Cluster manager education project; as a young researcher for the international KTU, KEEN project, and artificial intelligence solution for optimizing companies’ social media campaigns. My research involves eye-tracking, neurophysiological methodologies, the effect of brand-initiated post variables on social media, and the applying machine learning to predict customer engagement on social media platforms.
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Mindaugas Maraulas. Head of business unit. Blue Bridge
Mindaugas Maraulas
Head of business unit
Blue Bridge
Cloud computing expert with a strong focus on business.
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Augustas Štaras. Co-Founder. Motion Finance
Augustas Štaras
Co-Founder
Motion Finance
Twelve years of experience in building, growing, and managing Growth and Online Consumer businesses. Business development in the emerging digital finance industry.
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Jurgita Levandavičiūtė. Director, ITI Operations Command Center. AmerisourceBergen
Jurgita Levandavičiūtė
Director, ITI Operations Command Center
AmerisourceBergen
A people-person with a can-do attitude, passionate for challenges, structured and results oriented manager with ~10 years of experience in managing Operations and Service Delivery globally in the financial and IT industries. Working history from overseeing and improving day-to-day service delivery to relocation and service build-out projects, building processes, developing strategies and leading as well as developing teams from regional to a global scale.
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Rolandas Lepardinas. CTIO. Manufacturing innovation valley
Rolandas Lepardinas
CTIO
Manufacturing innovation valley
Rolandas is a creator of engineering systems, an expert in production and technological processes, and an expert in vertical innovation and robotics systems. Has many years of management experience in forming technical teams for product development and implementation of technological processes. Carries out international projects with various business and research institutions.
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Aidas Stončius. Solution Architect. Freelancer
Aidas Stončius
Solution Architect
Freelancer
My 20 years journey in tech is all about data, and analytics. During my career I witnessed how tools and technologies change, new buzzwords show up continuously, but data remains in the heart on all successful products and solutions. The importance of data just grows. That is the reason I relate my professional career with data and analytics. I’ve been taking many different positions during my career, from analyst to team lead, and senior consultant, and past several years working as a solution architect on designing and implementing complex, modern data and analytics solutions and platforms.
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Evaldas Kalinauskas. Senior Product Designer. Freelancer
Evaldas Kalinauskas
Senior Product Designer
Freelancer
I’m a senior product designer who likes a hands on approach to problem solving. I believe in systems thinking and fixing the bottleneck first. My design motto is: Learn and show first, adapt later.
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Janis Vepris. Senior Back-end Engineer. Shopify
Janis Vepris
Senior Back-end Engineer
Shopify
A back-end engineer with experience in a wide variety of projects, teams and companies. I put teamwork and communication before technical prowess. I believe the most effective way to grow as a professional in the field is to grow as a human.
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Jacopo Romei. Strategical Consultant. Freelancer
Jacopo Romei
Strategical Consultant
Freelancer
I am an Italian consultant, entrepreneur & writer. After having founded a couple of IT companies and practiced agile software development, I moved on as a full-time freelance agile coach, coaching teams in Italy, Germany, France, and the UK. During a new entrepreneurial adventure in ideato, I joined the eBay Italia team to set their agile process up. In 2015 I went back to freelancing, caring a lot about negotiation, product development, and organizations’ governance. As a writer, I have published a couple of nerd-ish books on agile coding practices and “Extreme Contracts: knowledge work from negotiation to collaboration.” I am a frequent public speaker in international conferences and events about how working is changing in knowledge work based industry and organizations management.
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.