Vaidotas Valuckas
Chief Executive Officer at Cincalokas
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Top SchoolVaidotas Valuckas is a pragmatic software leader and CEO with 12+ years building resilient platforms, delivery pipelines, and developer tooling that empower teams to ship reliably. He blends hands-on backend and DevOps expertise—spanning AWS, Kubernetes, Gradle internals, observability and CI/CD—with a history of rescuing and horizontally scaling legacy monoliths at startups like Casumo and leading delivery at seed-stage Bound. A contributor to the Gradle project (Spock 2 test migration), he understands both low-level engineering trade-offs and high-level product use cases, favoring functional behavior-driven testing over brittle unit-test patterns. He thrives with high autonomy, remote work, and clear stakeholder trust, and is candid about resisting micromanagement and location-based pay disparities. Unexpectedly for a CEO, he still spends time in the weeds — from bytecode and build-tool internals to scripting delivery automation — ensuring platform decisions are grounded in implementation reality.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Aircraft Pilot (Private), Aircraft Pilot (Private) at BAA Training Aviation AcademyComputer Science, Computer Science at Savitribai Phule Pune UniversityBachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
English, Lithuanian
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Github Skills (9)
javas10
test-framework10
gradlew10
spock10
groovy10
java10
test-automation10
gradle10
build-automation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
gradle/gradle
Dec 2019 - Apr 2022
Adaptable, fast automation for all
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 217 reviews, 2086 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vaidotas contributed to the testing infrastructure of the Gradle project by refactoring tests to be compatible with Spock 2. This included changes to various tests across different modules, removing JUnit annotations and modifying code to align with Spock 2's new behavior. The user's work also focused on improving build process testing by working with different versions of dependencies.
pythongradlegroovyautomationjava
rieske/dropwizard-skeleton
Jan 2016 - Oct 2020
A template for starting a dropwizard microservice
Contributions:26 PRs, 52 pushes, 27 branches in 4 years 9 months
dropwizardmicroservicemicroservices
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