Summary
Vidmantas Kabošis is a Director of Engineering with 17 years of experience building and scaling teams and platforms, currently leading up to 80 engineers at Toptal. He combines hands-on backend expertise in Ruby/Rails with strong product thinking, operational rigor, and a focus on team health, career growth, and sustainable delivery. At Toptal he drives cross-functional roadmaps, hiring, performance management and engineering-wide process changes while balancing strategic and tactical priorities. Earlier roles as Lead Developer at SameSystem and long experience in full-stack and freelance work give him a pragmatic appreciation for quality, CI and business-aligned engineering. Known for nurturing local engineering communities, he brings an engineer-manager mindset that values frequent delivery and professional relationships. Outside work he’s a parent and avid cyclist, a detail that reflects his discipline and appetite for momentum both personally and professionally.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Software engineering oo programming analysis, Bachelor Software engineering oo programming analysis at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
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English