SKILLS CAN BE TAUGHT, BUT ATTITUDE CAN'T!

Energetic, flexible, highly motivated, positive team player;
Eager to learn and open to new challenges;
Having the potential to motivate and support others;

Because of my unfulfilled potential when working in finance, I decided to make a career shift to software engineering. I didn't choose it because of a decent salary and programming is not just one of my hobbies - it's my passion.

How It Started

In 2019 I've started to learn Front-end engineering fundamentals and built my very first simple website in a week!
In 2020 January I finished full-stack studies at the Baltic Institute of Technology - was one of the most driven students. I was a self-taught front-end enthusiast, so I mentored my classmates and other students at coding school with our daily tasks and homework during scrum classes in the front-end development module. During the studies, we also got familiar with OOP and Java fundamentals. My final project was a web CRUD app , built with Spring Boot and MySQL. I enjoyed working on the front-end part and I already was self-taught in some front-tend technologies, so I decided to focus on it after getting my diploma.

How It’s Going

In 2020 August I got my first front-end developer job. Spent there 6 months working with Vue Js.
In 2021 March I joined another company to get more experience in React Js, TypeScript, and front-end testing - Jest and Cypress.

Currently, I am a full-time front-end software engineer supporting my team as the lead for UI performance research and Cypress testing, and making critical decisions when required.

Tech content creator, mentor and speaker.

Since 2020 mentoring and having fun on Social networks (Instagram/Linkedin). Just after finishing my studies, Covid happened. Everything got closed. No coding academies, no workshops, no meeting similar-minded people, nothing (!). I had to find ways to keep moving toward my software engineering career. After some investigation, I decided to join Instagram and do some networking with software developers outhere. I've shared my daily goals and losses when building my projects portfolio. Today there is a community of over 100k people. I enjoy sharing my developer's journey and helping and motivating others because I know how much support is needed to become a self-taught software engineer.

During 2021-2022 in partnership with Lithuania Junior Achievement (LJA) organization, I had the opportunity to visit schools in Lithuania. During these visits, I spoke to students about the tech world, software engineering, and startups, with the aim of encouraging them to be brave, creative, and curious.

In 2023, for the half of the year, I had the opportunity to be a mentor at The Kaunas University of Technology for the Product Development Project module. This module brings together researchers, lecturers, social partners, and student teams to collaborate on developing a product or service from idea to prototype. As a mentor, I provided guidance and advice to the student teams, along with other company representatives involved in the program.

Let's see the code!