Help good technology grow — safely.
I've been building Lithuania's internet since before most people here had an email address.
Following the technology
In the early 1990s I was a trader at a local marketplace in Panevėžys. By 1996 I was setting up some of the country's first commercial internet providers. I never planned to become a “cybersecurity expert” — I just kept following the technology, and the technology kept getting more serious.
What I put into the world
Building the ecosystem, not just companies
For more than a decade I also built the structures around Lithuanian tech — leading the industry clusters and associations that connect companies, research and the state:
Along the way I became Lithuania's first certified ESCA cluster benchmarking expert, advised the Lithuanian Parliament on IT, and — because apparently that wasn't enough — ran as an independent candidate for the European Parliament in 2019. Spoiler: Brussels survived without me. I learned to think on my feet under national TV lights.
Scaling other people's ambitions
As VP of Business Development at Paysera, I led international expansion — five licensed e-money franchises and a new digital bank in Georgia, across Europe, Africa and Latin America. A stint as Senior Technology Advisor at KPMG. Business development for autonomous defense technology at Granta Autonomy.
Turn complexity into structure, risk into clarity, and growth into something you can actually measure.
I'm typically brought in when an organization is scaling fast, facing regulatory or security pressure (hello, NIS2), or launching something new into a demanding market. Thirty years of building — and occasionally breaking — technology gives you a specific instinct for where things go wrong before they do.
Where the instinct goes now
These days I spend most of it on cybersecurity: advising boards, speaking (from Delfi and LRT to TVP World), training teams, and building tools — like a free security scanner that publishes every one of its 113 checks and exactly how it scores you, because a scanner that won't show its work is just an opinion with a number on it.
And I've come full circle — back to hands-on programming and security testing, now with modern AI tools. I teach people to code and to build real business tools fast — turning an idea into something working in days, not quarters.
Thirty years in, the mission is the same as day one: help good technology grow — safely.