Mentors & Experts

I truly believe that finding your own style to get things done is a skill to aspire. This motto is the driver of my professional career in IT. I started as manual tester and advanced my career by gaining experience through testing various products, leading testing and working with different people. All of it allowed me to become an advocate of agile testing practices. Currently, I am responsible for defining and executing quality strategy at Juvare, worldwide provider of emergency preparedness and response software solutions. In addition to that I’m an active IT community member and part-time lecturer in KTU, my alma mater. I am proud that my team members and my students are really successful in their careers, so I hope that sharing my experience will help WGT mentees to advance in theirs too.

Frontend Engineer enabling Angular development for 20+ teams using Nrwl Extensions (nx). Passionate for high quality solutions and open source community.

I have been leading IT change and IT transformation for more than 13 years spanning from IT infrastructure to development. I am passionate about making change happen by using IT to achieve desired business outcomes and mostly enjoying the journey together with the teams to get there!

Since childhood, I always tried to take a peek inside what is going on under the hood of many technologies. From then to now IT is still peaking my interest. I always try to learn new things and share my findings with others. Although I learned a lot by studying on my own and in IT courses, nothing can match how much I learned during my work as a QA engineer. It was overwhelming at first but with the help of others, I managed to grasp the complexities that come with creating and maintaining a product as a team. And now I’m at the point where I can help anyone in need. I believe that knowledge-sharing is key in this day and age to grow as an IT engineer – so that’s why I continue studying and sharing my knowledge with others.

I have been in IT for over 10 years and it feels like I have found a perfect spot for myself. As a test lead, I work with strategic and engineering challenges while working hands-on in the project. As a team lead, I work closely with individuals, mentor them, helping them find their strengths and grow.

I started my journey as QA engineer three years ago while I was still studying at Kauno Kolegija, ‘Information Finance Systems’ program. During these years of experience, I gained knowledge about testing processes, tried both: manual and automated testing, learnt how to work and collaborate with the team members, became familiar with project management methodologies, and got the opportunity to learn from real professionals. I am a person who is trying to continuously grow as a professional and individual.

I am a software engineer with 5+ years of experience. In terms of education, I studied Applied Mathematics and completed a Master’s degree in Information Systems Engineering. Throughout my career, I have been involved in a variety of projects, including (but not limited to) analyzing and providing high-end flight data, maintaining and improving government systems, developing disaster response systems etc.

I greatly appreciate the various experiences because I think they are very helpful in expanding one’s views and understanding. Alongside being a full stack developer and a scrum master, I actively focus on cloud solutions, quality assurance techniques, processes development and enabling teammates to succeed.

As a WGT alumni myself, I want to help new mentees to reach their full potential by sharing what it takes to be a competent engineer and a full-fledged member of the team.

Constantly learning Data Scientist that stays at the edge of newest technologies in Marketing & Finance industries and applies best practices of Machine Learning and analysis framing techniques to improve customer experience and products by doing proper Design of Experiment. Using 5+ years of expertise to uncover new opportunities for higher business value. Driving initiatives around the world in cross functional teams and coaching colleagues.

I transition to data analytics field with studying this on the side. My formal background was in Economics and I worked as public policy analyst. I could share my own transition experience and how to break into data science / engineering industry today by self study approach. I worked at various levels from junior analyst to being involved in strategic projects in company with 10K+ employees and leading those initiatives. I know how good work portfolio should look like and how to build one and can guide on this process. I am experienced in SQL, R, Python, analytics project management, working with both technical and business people.

From the very first steps in my business analysis and product management career 15 years ago I knew that it’s my path with the ability to grow and make clients’ lives easier. I led various kinds of projects: from couple weeks of solutions to long-term (2-3 years) projects. For the last 4 years, I have led a product that brings a different experience and challenges for product management. After all this experience I can say that the main expectations from a business analyst/product owner are good problem solving, perfect prompt communication and amazing ability to translate client’s language to developer’s language.

I changed my career from Business to IT. I have experience in both Private and Public sectors.

I am working at an IT company Inventi where we develop bespoke business software for leading finance, fintech, telco and large enterprise customers. Also have experience in various positions in the Public sector (Product Manager, Project Manager, Business Analyst) developing large scale systems of national importance.

If you have questions for example: Can I? What should I do? Am I really capable? – I am here to help you!

I have been working in IT area as a test specialist for more than 16 years. Started as an intern in insurance IT company and currently I’m working as a QA Guild Lead in Nord Security. Have a lot of experience in testing and test management, requirements gathering, processes improvement and support on big projects in distributed international environment, worked according Agile/Lean/Safe/Waterfall methodologies. Participated in Agile Tour conferences as an organizer, have certification as an Advanced Scrum Master / team coach. Looking forward to share my experience and knowledge to anyone who is interested in quality assurance.

Being 19 I got my first job in IT as a Mainframe automation engineer. And so I started off my career in a technology whose name I could hardly even spell correctly. That didn’t stop me from falling in love with it though 🙂

After some time as an engineer I became a technical manager, I also tried myself in the roles of a technical project leader and a lecturer at university. Recently after nearly a decade of working with this specific banking technology I moved to an entirely different sector and technology to lead the build-out of automation within the wider IT. And I couldn’t be happier about it!

So throughout my career I have moved between different roles and different technologies and well… now nothing looks as scary anymore. The change might freak us out at first, but it’s always worth it 💪

Since I was a teenager, I always wanted to be a developer, always thought its 100% for me! So I chose and got bachelor degree in programming! But after some real life experience as a developer I realized its definitely not for me.

Now I’m proudly working as Business Analyst and product team lead at fast moving company VoltasIT and I never felt better of my career path.

I am an experienced Senior SAP Business Warehouse Consultant – data engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Telecommunications, Oil and Gas, Dairy industries. I have an experience modelling data marts and information models, used in big data solutions, though I focus in data modelling and implementation in SAP BW system. I am very interested about SAP Data Warehousing journey and Enterprise data warehousing. This is both my passion and my work experience which I am keen to share.

I have had a few mentees previously, and I have and been guiding them through the learning journeys and topics while growing their experience. Also I see being a mentor as a challenge to myself as well. I have had a few mentees in my previous job at IBM, and been guiding them through the learning journeys and topics to learn while growing their experience, nevertheless being a mentor is a bit of a challenge to myself as well. Recently (during the last year) I have not been mentoring new people, but I would like to restart the same experience.

Software engineer with techlead and managment experience growing and developing local and cross-site agile mindset teams (Microsoft tech stack, mostly)

Experienced Quality Assurance Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in analysis, critical thinking, holistic approach to system testing. I am constantly learning about different things, which help me to broaden my approach to testing the apps. I like sharing my testing ideas with my colleagues and can’t wait to share some with Woman Go Tech mentees.

Professional with 14 years’ experience in IT projects management and related disciplines. Dynamic and motivated people-focused Manager having strong knowledge of both theoretical and practical aspects of leading teams in implementing changes. Disciplined and motivated leader possessing strong facilitation and interpersonal skills, results-oriented and positive attitude, as well as ability to establish and maintain stakeholders’ engagement and alliances.

I have been a software developer since 2008, working on all sides of web application development. More than a decade of looking at and writing code has given me a unique perspective of how to achieve more with less (effort).

Curiosity and the ability to constantly redefine and reinvent yourself is the hallmark of the current day IT professional – so. let’s reinvent ourselves.

Hi, I am a full stack developer, currently working with Java and Angular languages. Previously, I got my PhD in Physics and used to be a scientist. Nevertheless, at my former job, I lacked the opportunity to observe the results of my work right away. Since, I have been still enthusiastic to mastering new skills, I took one of many IT courses available and started getting into software development. My experience as a developer is 4 years. However, in the IT field, it is not that short period of time. I feel, I can share my knowledge, as well as the experience I gained changing my career path.

ISTQB certified analytical and performance driven quality assurance professional with experience of manual testing for web and desktop applications. I have analytical and technical skills with an expertise in banking, e-commerce and insurance. Passionate about IT and eager to dive deeper in the QA sphere. Recently transitioned to the Automation side of QA.

Experienced manager with a demonstrated history of success in ICT and energy automation systems business. Professional skills in leading international teams, business development strategy, sales of complex IT systems for governments, Software as Service, product, bid and project management (PMP®), client consulting, wide experience of international multilateral and other financiers’ and donors’ tendering requirements. Technical knowledge and passion: cyber security for critical infrastructure, business process automation, software and hardware solutions for telecom industry, renewable energy generation solutions and requirements, smart grids, electrical dispatch control systems, substation automation systems and standards. The main countries of work activities and professional experience: Baltics, Nordic, CIS, Caucasus, Ethiopia, Bangladesh. Interests: Kyokushin Karate (3 Dan; International judge), kitesurfing.

My background is in all things Data Science – I’ve been a manager, mentor, and an individual contributor. My experience spans academic research and industry applications. I have published at top AI/ML/Stats conferences, as well as built data science teams from ground up, and worked in medical imaging, astronomy, climate science and other science applications. Previously, I have mentored in the areas of AI Ethics, ML in Remote Sensing and Medical imaging (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/1911.03216 and https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.04762). Today I work at Vinted in experimentation and causal inference – my role involves leadership across all aspects of experimentation and causal inference; from implementing scientific models underlying the experimentation system to setting up technical roadmap and establishing experimentation culture. I am also a board member of the Lithuanian AI association, where my task is to improve Lithuanian AI/ML/stats community, hence I’ve co-organised a Vilnius Machine Learning Workshop (https://workshops.eeml.eu/) and EEML in 2022 (https://www.eeml.eu/).

My IT journey involves many SAP ERP and SuccessFactors implementation projects, lots and lots of airline miles and hotel stays, working in large international IT projects and diverse teams, delivering projects under a tight deadline which is always an interesting thing to talk about 🙂

I am 100% convinced that IT is a form of “controlled” art – it requires flexibility and creative solutions whilst trying to stick to a certain methodology and dry numbers.

Being a consultant to me is an opportunity to combine and excel in my two passions – technology and people.

Inga Žukauskienė is Women4Cyber Lithuania coordinator, Information Technology Deputy Director with a demonstrated experience working in the Project Management field. Skilled in Cyber Security Governance and international relations, EU affairs, cyber security threats and national cyber security policy issues.