Summary
Kristina Kabošienė is a pragmatic Backend Engineer with 11 years in software and 6+ years focused on Ruby on Rails, currently contributing at Vinted and co-founding two startups. She pairs hands-on feature development and performance work—upgrading stacks, fixing N+1 queries, and building compliance/reporting features—with a knack for extracting reusable code into gems and integrating complex APIs. Having shipped full projects outside Rails (a consultancy site and a Blockly-based Hour of Code platform used by thousands), she blends web engineering with practical product delivery. Kristina is equally invested in team dynamics: she facilitates retrospectives, onboards teammates, and applies Radical Candor to improve communication and processes. Comfortable spanning infrastructure (AWS, Passenger/Nginx, Capistrano) to testing (Minitest) and localization, she thrives breaking complex problems into clear, actionable steps. Based in Vilnius with a background in bioinformatics, she brings analytical rigor and a bias for measurable team improvements.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
School for Young Physicists "Fotonas"
Bachelor Bioinformatics, Bachelor Bioinformatics at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
Klaipėdos Vytauto Didžiojo gimnazija
Lithuanian, English, Russian