Mentoring is best described as an educational process when mentors share knowledge with the purpose of surfacing potential in their protégés.
Skaistė Kiaušaitė. Technical Product Owner. Zedge
Business-minded strategic thinker with 10+ years of experience in PO roles in international media, IT, telecom, FinTech companies. My extensive career experiences and insights in many different IT products management and development allowed me to develop a number of strong technical and business skills.
Karolis Strumskis. Sr Director of Product. Omnisend
Product management is one of those wildcard roles – every organization puts a different meaning to it and sometimes fundamentally different expectations. In many cases, it goes beyond just solving customer problems or finding the right “it”. Just as every other day, I’m looking forward to sharing my 10+ years of product experience, both hands on and product strategy level, with current or about-to-be product management specialists.
Dmitry Berlinkski. UX Chapter Lead, Head of UX. SameSystem
Design is everything specific
Nice to meet you, its me, Dima, the Designer.
My mission is to help out company owners and business managers to develop strong brand experience and useful, digital products (which convert) by applying design thinking.
Although my main focus is UX and product design, great things are achieved together with teams. That’s why everything that relates to people facilitation, peer to peer reviews, management, feedback, workshops is deeply important to me.
My love for design starts with User context. The situation in which the user finds themselves in, the needs which emerge because of it, and tasks whichever the user ends up. Don’t get me wrong, aesthetics of the design are quite important (Which I love to stay hands-on). Nevertheless, its predominant to be led by various research methods (collect datа, synthesize findings and insights)
Arūnas Kapočius. Delivery Lead. Genius Sports Groups
I’m within the IT sector for more than 14 years already. The IT journey I started as a full-stack web developer, got to touch the QA area, later on, switched to PHP backend development. After that, I did not notice how I became Team/Delivery Lead. And now I’m investigating what does it means to be Delivery Manager and be responsible for several team delivery. Nevertheless, I am a very simple person and always happy to help
Jurgita Vaitkevičiūtė. Head of Digital Processing. SEB
Experienced manager with wide scope of skills acquired in different positions in and outside SEB.
Continuous learning and adapting to ever changing and uncertain environment drives me forward every day. I believe in success through teamwork, collaboration, dedication, transparency and courage to act.
Evaldas Marcinkus. Head of Reporting & Analytics IT Department. SEB
I remember myself being always interested in the computers, even in the primary school I could not pass the classroom where higher grade students were studying the informatics and were already programming in Pascal. I always managed to sneak into the classroom and try the functions from the blackboard. That’s how my IT story began and still continues while exploring the IT world for more than 18 years professionally. Being a manager with international leadership experience in banking field both in business and IT I’m bridging the technology teams and business stakeholders. So far I have programmed, have been a Business Developer (these days called a Product Owner) and now I’m heading the IT Department in one of the largest Scandinavian banks.
I am open, collaborative and target-driven, therefore, I want to share my learnings and induce your curiosity in IT.
Kristina Velijevaitė. Product Manager. StrongPoint
I am a problem solver. I try to understand the User’s needs, behaviour and preferences to deliver the best solution. A certified Product manager with a background in Business, who is currently pursuing a professional certificate in Data Science. Specialising in AI products.
Tomas Kaminskas. Cloud engineer – team lead. Omega 365
I have more than 20 years in general IT, went full stack experience wise, did some freelancing gigs, transitioning into leadership roles, open-minded and looking for new ideas from junior generation
Nerilė Mažeikienė. Sales and Customer Service Department Manager. Ignitis
I have experience in product&project, customer experience management: planning, analysis, customer voice, pilots, implementation, control, KPIs, follow-up, business plan calculations. All way long have many lessons learned that I am ready to share. My 4 years of mentorship experience is within the companies ESO & Ignitis holding.
Asta Bagdonavičienė. Head of Reporting and Data Vizualization. Telia
I’ve started my career with Econometrics and Economics studies. I’ve landed into various data analyst/data steward/business analyst positions within banks, consultancy and telecommunications, which required a good combination of understanding the end goal while still being capable to grasp technical level. New jobs have resulted in new domain knowledge and new tools, so learning and self-learning were always crucial. Openness and curiosity are what I call the success criteria. It also leads me to new experiences and, I believe, in the upcoming collaboration with mentees.
I have a coaching certificate from International Coaching Federation (ICF). I have practice with individual coaching on personal topics. Also – professional mentorship within the organization internally. It included various levels – junior-mid-senior specialists and team leaders.
Laimonas Lileika. Senior Director, Program Management and Organizational Excellence. Toptal
At Toptal Laimonas is responsible for scaling Toptal’s business sustainably through building a culture of modern Agile project and program management, focusing on the implementation of business-oriented delivery frameworks across the Product Management and Engineering functions. He brings over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, working both at hyper-growth startups and Fortune 50 (Microsoft) and 500 (CSC) companies.
Laimonas holds a Bachelor’s in Business Information Management and a Master’s in Communication Science from Vilnius University where he also used to lecture on IT Project Management. He is a co-founder and a board member of “Agile Lithuania” association and speaks at various local and international conferences.
Tadas Jakštas. Senior Cybersecurity Capacity Building Expert. NRD CS
I am a senior cybersecurity capacity building consultant with extensive experience in managing international cybersecurity and defence projects. I work with governments and private sector organisations in the following areas:
– Development of National Cyber Security Policies and Strategies
– Development of National Critical Information Infrastructure Identification and Protection Frameworks
– Deployment of Cybersecurity Capacity Maturity Assessments for Nations
– Creation of Cybersecurity Crisis Management Regulatory Frameworks and Governance Structures
– Improving National Cybersecurity Legislations
Neringa Urlikė. Senior Test Analyst. TransUnion Baltics
4 years ago, my journey to the tech world also started from WGT where I participated as a mentee. During all these years full of new challenges and learnings through various courses and certifications programs, my career successfully has grown to a Senior QA engineer. So, I am excited to come back to this program as a mentor not just to share my knowledge and experience gained through all these years working in a Global company but to encourage and support someone on her first steps to the fascinating tech world.
Morta Ribokaitė. Swedbank. Product owner
Financial regulations professional with a good insight into the regulatory environment and associated challenges, a team leader committed to integrity and excellence. A natural leader, a team spirit. Came from an academic background in financial markets I have a keen interest in financial markets, products, and securities laws and regulations. Experienced product owner currently working on a challenging regulatory agenda building sustainable BI solutions for a data-driven company.
Miglė Butkevičė. Product Manager. Vinted
I’ve never planned to work in IT. I started my career as a Business Consultant, later worked in a few other companies as a Change Manager & Business Development Manager. However, I always had a feeling that something was missing & that I was not where I was supposed to be. And this feeling continued until I started working in the IT industry, where I found that being a Product Manager in a cross-functional team is what I am truly madly deeply passionate about. So I am glad to share with others my experiences, learnings, and mistakes I’ve made along the way to IT.
Liudas Gulbinas. Head of Collaboration and Productivity. Danske Bank
Leading collaboration tools transformation strategy in Danske Bank – moving towards cloud based workstream and social collaboration solutions. With more than 10 years experience in project management field, even in current role a lot of my focus is dedicated to change delivery and improving employee experience.
Kristina Valiūnė. Senior Quality Assurance Engineer. OAG Aviation Worldwide
I am QA engineer with more than a decade of experience in database, microservices testing. As a passionate software tester in data analysis and test automation I’m interested in product quality assurance processes improvements. I enjoy sharing my knowledge and I’m eager to help those who would like to try this role too.
Irmantas Marozas. Senior DevOps Engineer. Juvare
Irmantas has over 8 years of experience in the Information Technology industry, with experience in areas such as Serverless Solutions, Cloud Solutions Architecture, Security, Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD automation.
Since the beginning of his career, Irmantas has worked as a platform engineer for a mission-critical large-scale DevOps Platform. He has worked in both the Agile Scrum team and Service Reliability Engineering team; building infrastructure automation using infrastructure-as-code, following CI/CD best practices and supporting platforms following Service Reliability Engineering practices. He then transitioned to a role of System Team DevOps Lead Engineer in Financial Services – architecting, designing, and implementing large-scale solutions for the client. Currently working as a Senior DevOps Engineer at Juvare, helping to deliver best-of-breed Emergency & Response solutions.
Donata Marcevičiūtė. Infrastructure Solution Manager. Blue Bridge MSP
I am a business-minded IT professional with more than 5 years of experience in IT service providers companies. During my career I have a proven record of working with large and enterprise organizations. The skills of Project Management, Sales Management and Business Development are the ones I am strong at and ready to share with my mentee. As well, this year I am finishing to gain my Master Degree in Innovation and Technology Management at ISM University. As I have my personal experience changing my career towards IT, I will be happy to share it and empower others to do so.
Aušra Ambrazevičiūtė. Software Engineer. CUJO AI
From bachelor’s in psychology to Software Engineering. I have started my path in IT from being a data analyst. In that time a have gained experience with Python, SQL and other tooling that might be helpful. Although first few steps in IT might be hard, hopefully we could conquer them together by finding ways to defeat them!
Ana Sumel. Transformation Manager. Cognizant
Creative leader, Lean thinker, Visionare, Strategist, Brainstormer, Question asker, Mama, food lover, fluency in multiple languages. Since 2014 I have been improving, transforming, digitalizing processes in global operations. Consulting, mentoring and empowering Teams & Leadership to drive change and efficiency. 200+ Workshops & trainings conducted, 600+ BPMN, VSM, Customer Journey maps created, 500+ improvement projects implemented. My secret key to success for any project at work, in personal life or for a career aspiration is never quit and don’t forget Thomas Edison words “When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this: you haven’t.
Agne Strimaityte. Senior UX/UI Designer. Grundfos
Hi! My name is Agne and I am a UX/UI Designer. I am educated as a Digital concept developer and Multimedia designer, and for the last years, I have been involved in the fields of user experience, design, creativity, digitalization and innovation. My work portfolio consists of a wide range of projects and graphical assignments, such as UX/UI for apps and websites, digital design, design facilitation in workshops and hackathons, explainer videos, visual consulting, ect. I strive for quality, constant development and am always keen on new challenges.
Recently I joined Grundfos, where I work as a Senior UX/UI Designer, and my past experiences include a UX/UI Designer role in a software development company STRONGMINDS and co-managing a micro-company in Innovation Lab, where I worked with visual communication, explainer videos, digital design and concept development.
Justė Molienė. Owner and SAP BW Consultant. Gera data
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.
Karolis Žemaitis. Business Analyst / Product team lead. VoltasIT
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.