Vytautas Černiauskas
Sales And Partnerships at Startup Division
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
Summary
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Top SchoolVytautas Černiauskas is a versatile sales and partnerships leader with six years of experience blending startup growth, mentorship, and technical contribution from Vilnius. He has co-founded and led early-stage ventures, served as CFO, and guided numerous startups as a mentor and lecturer for programs like Startup Wise Guys and GovTech Lab. At WORKOFO he focuses on commercial partnerships while maintaining a strong technical foothold—contributing backend improvements to the widely used Cadence orchestration ecosystem, notably enhancing its CLI and Go client for workflow retries and registration compatibility. His background combines formal executive education (IE Business School, Harvard Business School Online) with hands-on operational leadership from roles at Uber and Swedbank. Colleagues describe him as a connector who turns product and technical nuance into actionable partnerships and scalable processes. He brings a rare mix of GTM sensibility, startup operator grit, and contributor-level understanding of distributed workflow systems.
5 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
HBX Executive Education Strategy & Leadership, HBX Executive Education Strategy & Leadership at Harvard Business School OnlineKaunas University of Technology GymnasiumInternational MBA, International MBA at IE Business SchoolBehavioral Economics Marketing and Finance MBA exchange, Behavioral Economics Marketing and Finance MBA exchange at Yale School of Management
English, Lithuanian, Russian, Swedish, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
golang10
cadence10
command-line-interface10
workflow-management10
functionfs10
orchestration10
go10
cli10
command-line10
testing9
distributed-systems9
task-management9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cadence-workflow/cadence-go-client
Jun 2020 - Feb 2022
Framework for authoring workflows and activities running on top of the Cadence orchestration engine.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 15 reviews, 50 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Vytautas primarily contributed to the Cadence Go client library, focusing on enhancements to the internal registry, specifically related to activity and workflow registration. They introduced features like registering aliases for struct activities, enabling short names, and ensuring backwards compatibility. The user also addressed a bug in local activity marker handling and made improvements to the retry policy implementation when completing workflows, demonstrating a deep understanding of the workflow engine's internals.
golangworkflow-functionscadenceorchestrationauthoring-workflows
cadence-workflow/cadence
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
Cadence is a distributed, scalable, durable, and highly available orchestration engine to execute asynchronous long-running business logic in a scalable and resilient way.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 295 reviews, 262 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Vytautas primarily contributed to enhancing the command-line interface (CLI) by adding features for workflow initiation. They introduced options to specify retry policies, including parameters for retry attempts, intervals, and expiration. Additionally, they enabled the propagation of header values via the CLI by adding parameters to define header keys and values. These changes were made through modifications to CLI flags and workflow commands within the repository.
cadenceresilientorchestration-engineservice-buslogic
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