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Deividas Ambrazevicius

Engineering Manager
Vilnius

Summary

Experienced Back-End Engineer & Engineering Manager with a strong focus on scalability, optimization, and team leadership. Achieved over €120,000/year cost savings, 30% server efficiency improvement, and 70% faster page speeds, boosting conversions by 40%. Built payment solutions increasing transaction success by 25%, led a team of 8 engineers, eliminated fraud inquiries and implemented automated monitoring, velocity tracking, and workflow optimization.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Engineering Manager

NordPass
09.2023 - Current

(Industry-leading password manager by Nord Security, driving innovation in web technology, performance, and automation.)


  • Designed and built a fraud detection service which integrates LLM methods, preventing invalid signups and saved €100,000 annually.
  • Measured and improved team velocity, task complexity progression, and story point efficiency, ensuring data-driven team growth.
  • Ensured staging and review environments, set the rules when we use both of these environments
  • Enabled continuous automated testing, reducing manual QA time by 40% and improving release reliability.
  • Empowered non-technical teams to build and edit content independently with headless CMS, cutting content update/create time by 90% (from 3 days to 30 minutes) also successfully migrated 1,600+ landing pages from Gatsby to NextJS
  • Developed a Grafana dashboard for B2C payment analytics, providing real-time tracking of initial and recurring payment success rates, enabling the marketing team to monitor transaction performance and optimize strategies.
  • Built a unified Web API integrating multiple services with centralized error handling, single API endpoint for all services (replacing multiple scattered APIs)
  • Implemented growth-focused development roadmaps for engineers, ensuring structured skill progression and technical excellence.
  • Introduced automated monitoring for outdated/vulnerable packages with proactive fixes and workload tracking, optimizing task distribution and balancing complexity across the team.
  • Enforced detailed briefs before sprint acceptance, reducing estimation errors by 50%.

CTO

Civinity Group
01.2023 - 05.2023
  • Oversaw the entire IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, and software maintenance, ensuring seamless operations across the company.
  • Led infrastructure changes and supplier renegotiations, reducing annual IT expenses by €20,000, while maintaining high system performance and security.
  • Negotiated and optimized contracts with third-party service providers, reducing costs by 15% while improving service quality.
  • Ensured IT solutions were fully aligned with business needs, enhancing productivity and supporting company-wide digital transformation initiatives.

Engineering Manager

Kilo Health
04.2020 - 07.2022

(Fastest-growing digital health companies in Europe, with 6.5M+ customers worldwide, ranked 2nd fastest-growing company by Financial Times FT 1,000 in 2022.)


  • Technical Lead for DoFasting (We were in App Store #1 in Health & Fitness category) – Led the end-to-end technical delivery of one of Kilo Health’s most successful projects, overseeing website development, payments infrastructure, and app releases.
  • Designed and implemented multiple APIs and microservices, supporting millions of users and ensuring seamless cross-platform integrations.(Exercises, meal plans)
  • Optimized infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, reducing website deployment time by 80% and enabling one-day landing page launches for new products.
  • Managed a high-performing team of 2 back-end developers, 2 front-end developers, 2 mobile developers, and 2 QA engineers, ensuring top-tier execution and delivery.
  • Led the development of a new service generating an additional €2,000/month in revenue, contributing to company growth.
  • Contributed to the company's expansion from 30 to 500+ experts, 30+ products, and 5 European offices, driving innovation in the digital health space.

Senior Back-End Developer

Kilo Health
04.2019 - 04.2020
  • Engineered a scalable and reusable back-end architecture, reducing development time by 80%, allowing new product landing pages to be built and launched within one day.
  • Implemented auto-scaling and proactive monitoring, reducing downtime by 40% and improving server efficiency by 30%.
  • Designed a secure and modular payment system which included different payment providers(braintree,paypal, klarna, paypal), integrated into multiple projects, increasing transaction success rates by 25% and reducing payment processing issues by 35%.
  • Led initiatives that improved load times by 50%, reduced server costs by 20%, and ensured 99.9% uptime across all web applications.

Full-stack Engineer

Candidsky
01.2018 - 04.2019
  • Developed enhancements that improved page speed by 70%, leading to a 40% increase in contact form submissions and higher organic traffic.
  • Implemented Amazon S3 and CloudFront CDN solutions, reducing server costs by 20% while improving asset delivery speed.
  • Built tailored internal tools that streamlined workflows, saving clients 15% annually and improving efficiency.
  • Provided expert guidance on web architecture, performance tuning, and scalable solutions for agencies and businesses.

Full-stack Engineer

Wani Creative
06.2016 - 12.2017
  • Developed user-friendly interfaces using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and other front-end technologies for seamless user experience for the clients
  • Made responsive web applications to provide consistent user experiences across multiple devices and platforms.
  • Built custom functionalities for WordPress platforms which improved work efficiency in clients daily work.
  • Introduces website maintenance agreements for the client which added additional 40 000 GBP pe year for the agency profit.

Full-stack Engineer

Skytech.lt
09.2014 - 10.2015
  • Improved Database performance by 30% to support back-end services
  • Integrated third-party APIs to enhance functionality and improve overall user experience on e-commerce platform.
  • Reduced page load times 40% by optimizing front-end assets such as JavaScript chunk sizes and preloaded images

Education

Bachelor of Science - Informational Technology

Kaunas University Of Technology
Kaunas, Lithuania
04.2001 -

Timeline

Engineering Manager

NordPass
09.2023 - Current

CTO

Civinity Group
01.2023 - 05.2023

Engineering Manager

Kilo Health
04.2020 - 07.2022

Senior Back-End Developer

Kilo Health
04.2019 - 04.2020

Full-stack Engineer

Candidsky
01.2018 - 04.2019

Full-stack Engineer

Wani Creative
06.2016 - 12.2017

Full-stack Engineer

Skytech.lt
09.2014 - 10.2015

Bachelor of Science - Informational Technology

Kaunas University Of Technology
04.2001 -
Deividas AmbrazeviciusEngineering Manager