Professional

Contents

• Talks
  • Building for the World: A Developer’s Guide to Internationalization and Localization
  • Painless Testing of Event-Driven Architecture
  • A Quest for Optimal HTTP Client DX
  • Advanced Caching in Node.js
  • Reinventing the wheel 101: Templates and Best-Practices-as-Code
• Experience
• Skills
• Relevant Education

Talks

Building for the World: A Developer’s Guide to Internationalization and Localization

4Developers 2025 · Warsaw, Poland · May 2025

Painless Testing of Event-Driven Architecture

DevDays Europe 2025 · Vilnius, Lithuania · May 2025

A Quest for Optimal HTTP Client DX

IT Days Warsaw · Warsaw, Poland · April 2025

Advanced Caching in Node.js

NodeConf EU · Kilkenny, Ireland · November 2023

Watch on YouTube (ignore first 90 seconds of me panicking about presenting to the most hardcore crowd in my life)

Reinventing the wheel 101: Templates and Best-Practices-as-Code

DevEx · Vilnius, Lithuania · January 2023

Experience

17+ years in software engineering, progressing from Test Automation through Java Development to Technical Leadership and Principal Engineering roles.

Current

Principal Software Engineer at Lokalise (2022 - Present)

Notable Previous Roles

• Principal Software Engineer at NORMALis.TECH (2021 - 2022)
• Global Chains Team Lead & Software Developer at Booking.com (2020)
• Team Lead & Senior Backend Engineer at adidas (2019 - 2020)
• Squad Lead at bloomon (2018 - 2019)
• API Lead at Shift4 Payments (2017 - 2018)
• Technical Lead at Devbridge Group (2016 - 2017)

Earlier Career

Started in 2008 as a Test Automation Engineer, transitioned to Java development at Asseco Lithuania, where I grew from an engineer to Technical Lead over 5 years (2011 - 2016).

Skills

Languages

Domains

Relevant Education

Master’s Degree in Computer Software Engineering Vilnius University