Hi, I'm Vytenis.
Engineering lead in Vilnius, Lithuania. I care about practical systems, clean software and teams that ship.
Here I write about software engineering and leadership, share the projects I'm building, keep a reading list of what's worth your time, and help developers and teams get unstuck.
Writing
Projects
Reading
What I read and recommend on engineering, leadership and product thinking. 921 picks so far, rated honestly.
article It's the memory latency, stupid ★★★★★article Hunger beats tenure: Advice for junior engineers ★★★★★article How software engineering is changing: a tale of two eras ★★★★★article Dealing with the identity crisis in software engineering ★★★★★article AI SRE: what is it, how could it change on-call – and does it work? ★★★★★article How to transform your software development lifecycle with AI—stage by stage. ★★★★★article Many ways to win ★★★★★article Jobs every engineer should automate with agents ★★★★★article How the Claude Code team does code review ★★★★★
Work with me
Stuck on something? I help founders, teams and fellow developers find the way through.
- Code & architecture review
- A second pair of eyes on your codebase or system design.
- Product builds
- From idea to a working product, scoped tight.
- AI in your workflow
- Setting up coding assistants and agents your team will actually use.
- Engineering leadership
- Mentoring new leads and helping teams find their strengths.