Engineering manager & software engineer Lukas Varklis from Lithuania ✌️🇱🇹
My areas of interest: reading books 📚, kite surfing 🏄♂️ and engineering cool stuff! 🎒
Soo if you are interested in connecting, do not hesitate to drop me a message! 👊
This document is still a work in progress. I promise to maintain it to be documentation on me
Quality assurance is not only mine, yours or QA engineer responsibility - it's everyones.
People first - my primary goal is to create a healthy environment within my team and organization. I believe that happy, informed, and productive people can create unbelievable things.
Autonomy - I always try to trust other people and give my teammates responsibility. I presume they can make great decisions.
Openness - I make information available to everyone. I dare to say this allows us to move faster and builds trust between team members.
Nonetheless, I enjoy communicating via group chat. If it’s not personal, let’s use a shared Slack channel where everyone can see all the information or answer your questions. Wouldn’t you agree it’s more productive this way?
Oh and lastly, I always expect a clear agenda provided for my meetings as well as to walk away with clear takeaways. If we don’t have what to take from it, do we really need it?
After a few calls, you can get bored of me starting meetings with "How are you?". However, the goal of this 1:1 is to discuss topic of substance - not the status updates.
But hey - it's also your time! So always feel free to add agenda of what you like to discuss.
Usually, I prefer to share feedback instantly: even it’s pleasant to hear or not that much - let’s not wait for a specific meeting but learn instantly from our mistakes on the go.
I’m always open and interested in hearing feedback to my side as well. Providing feedback requires your courage and so it allows me to grow - I highly appreciate it.
Knowledge-sharing sessions and workshops could help us get there, so suggestions or initiatives are more than welcome anytime. Let me help you!
And of course, if you have found article or resource which could be interesting for others too -- let's share it with everyone. Sharing is caring, right?
- How We Tried Using Git Submodules (And Why It Did Not Work for Us)
- Git: How To Write A History Book Of Your Project
- Running Internal Initiatives and Preventing Miscommunication
I like to share useful and interesting resources with others. Sharing is caring! If you have any recommendations for me to read, feel free to post them 👉 here👈!
- The Manager's Path
- The Design of Everyday Things
- How I Built This
- Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
- Factfulness
- Naked Statistics
- Let My People Go Surfing
- What Is Engineering Excellence
- How to be an Effective Executive
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
- The two types of quality
Did you find something useful? As I said, it would be more than welcome to hear feedback or learning recommendations from you. I believe you have some, do not hide it inside! Create an issue 👉 here 👈.
Feel free to drop me a message via LinkedIn. I am always open to new connections! ✌️