For hire¶

I've been accruing a vast set of skills combining different fields. And you can hire me. Rates depend on how busy I am at the time and how interested I am in your problem. Usually I will either help you find the solution, do it myself or direct you to someone who will help.

All inquiries should be directed to my inbox antanas@sinica.lt

My curriculum vitae¶

It's not perfect or super up-to-date, but you can find some of the companies I've worked for in my LinkedIn page. Also I keep my network to only the people I have some professional experience/contact with, so never-mind if I didn't accept your invite, just reach out via email.

My story¶

Having found computers very early, it's been my hobby and my job for as long as I remember.

I've received my first salary from a simple PHP script when I was 13 years old, continued to progress from there, increasing complexity with every new project and/or job I take up on. And that's true up until today!

For example: I make a platform that manages several Wordpress websites from a single dashboard, allows bulk inserting posts etc. and with next improvement I was asked by the client (that would be otherwise boring) - I think of some angle to challenge myself. Like autocomplete! Remember saying to myself "Well, if Google can do it on their website, why can't I on my web app". Oh good old jQuery version 0.x days...

Having worked in freelance gigs, for small agencies and being almost exclusively self-taught I was very late to discover git and linux. This is exactly why I encourage everyone to seek mentorship and love to provide it myself. Oh if someone would have shown me git in 2006!

Fast-forward to today, I have worked as a developer and lead in many different industries - financial, scientific, construction, medical, automotive, crypto etc.

As a developer and as an engineer I've veered toward harder and harder problems. So I love performance issues at scale, bright production fires, tough deadlines, hair-pulling audit spaghetti, modern company infra and when all that's solved... a calm evening.

If I wasn't a developer, I always thought I would've been a psychologist or a philosopher. And professionally that helps me dive deeper into relationships with colleagues, purpose of the job, understanding rather than just doing.

And these days, I'm more and more embracing and combining my other hobbies and passions with my developer skills. Like driving cars and working on them is now leading me to chip-tune my own daily-driven Golf. Or like my computer office space is overloaded with tools and materials and has become a messy makerspace. It would take me 1 minute to switch between working on some Kotlin code for a big corp and soldering up a POC for some idea that popped up.