Gediminas Strumila
Product Engineer | Technical Lead | Full-Stack Engineer
United Kingdom gediminas@aktoriukas.com | aktoriukas.com | LinkedIn | GitHub
Profile
Product engineer and technical lead with 6 years of experience shipping production software across AI, AdTech, Web3, and internal platforms. Owns loosely defined problems end-to-end - from product discovery and UX through system design, hands-on implementation, release, and iteration.
Leads engineering delivery across Alkimi's core product portfolio, mentors engineers, and influences product, design, architecture, and infrastructure decisions. Frontend depth in TypeScript, React, and Next.js, with full-stack delivery across Python, FastAPI, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Supabase, and LLM agent systems.
Core Expertise
- End-to-end product ownership
- Product and technical leadership
- Team leadership, mentoring, and training
- Product discovery, planning, and prioritisation
- UX, information architecture, and design systems
- Full-stack architecture and implementation
- AI, LLM, and agent-assisted workflows
- Cross-functional stakeholder management
Experience
Alkimi | Full-Stack Engineer / Product & Technical Lead
London, United Kingdom | April 2023 - Present
- Lead delivery across 5+ customer-facing products and internal systems, taking work from problem framing and UX flows through architecture, implementation, release, and iteration.
- Coordinate work across engineering, product, design, commercial, and operations; turn ambiguous business needs into product direction, technical plans, scoped milestones, and shipped software.
- Influence core product decisions across UX, information architecture, full-stack patterns, authentication, role-based access, data, integrations, deployment, and shared tooling.
- Lead team execution through work breakdown, technical direction, design and code review, delivery risk management, and release validation while remaining directly involved in implementation.
- Mentor engineers and organise internal training, technical workshops, product sessions, and knowledge-sharing activities.
- Build across TypeScript, React, Next.js, Python, FastAPI, PostgreSQL, Supabase, S3, Anthropic/Claude, MCP, and Sui.
Selected Products Shipped
- Agentic Marketplace - Shaped and delivered an AI-assisted programmatic advertising marketplace covering buyer and seller workflows, governed agent negotiations, approval gates, audit trails, role-based access, and blockchain attestation paths.
- Folio - Built an AI document platform where agents draft structured briefs, reports, and presentations while people retain control over editing, review, publishing, gated access, and PDF/PPT export.
- Alkimi Labs v2 - Led frontend architecture and UX across staking, token unlocks, advertising explorer workflows, wallet-authenticated accounts, analytics, support, and shared dashboard components.
- AI Linear Service - Delivered internal issue-triage automation that analyses incoming work, adds implementation guidance, estimates complexity, identifies risks, and improves its instructions through feedback.
- Alkimi UI Kit and shared infrastructure - Established reusable product, component, and document foundations to improve consistency and delivery across product surfaces.
Good Caesar | Web Developer
London, United Kingdom | July 2020 - April 2023
- Built and shipped responsive websites and web applications from initial brief through implementation, testing, troubleshooting, and production release.
- Translated product and visual requirements into reusable frontend components, CMS templates, and reliable cross-browser experiences using React, JavaScript, Sass/CSS, HTML, Twig, PHP, and Figma.
- Delivered commercial digital work for Policy Expert, Pure Cremation, Reviti, Invest Guide Africa, Wirebox, and Digital Labs.
Soho House | Bars Manager
London, United Kingdom | November 2015 - October 2020
- Led a 25-person team across four hospitality operations, covering recruitment, onboarding, coaching, performance, rotas, labour planning, inventory, suppliers, and daily delivery.
- Used forecasting, cost, and sales data to plan staffing and operations in a high-volume environment.
Selected Engineering Projects
- AFK Workflow System - Open-source Claude Code workflow that packages planning, parallel implementation, adversarial testing, validation, release review, resumable state, and Git worktree isolation into an installable engineering tool.
- AI Prompt Rating - Community product for sharing, rating, adapting, and discussing useful AI prompts through interactive variables, tags, filtering, and nested comments.
- Menu for a Week - Full-stack household planning product with authentication, weekly menus, dishes, shopping lists, sharing, PWA support, and an AI meal assistant.
- Developer tools - Released focused utilities including an SVG-to-React converter, Bionic Reading experiment, local-development tooling, delay-tracking applications, and reusable automation scripts.
Technical Skills
Frontend: TypeScript, JavaScript, React, Next.js, HTML, CSS, Sass, Tailwind CSS, responsive UI, accessibility, component architecture, data visualisation
Backend and data: Python, FastAPI, Node.js, PostgreSQL, Supabase, SQL, REST APIs, webhooks, authentication, role-based access control, object storage, scheduled workflows
AI and automation: Anthropic/Claude, MCP, LLM integrations, agent workflows, prompt and context design, document generation, feedback loops, AI-assisted engineering
Web3: Sui, Wagmi, Viem, wallet authentication, staking and token interfaces, blockchain data visualisation
Product and delivery: Product discovery, requirements definition, technical planning, system design, UX strategy, delivery leadership, mentoring, workshops, stakeholder management, Git, GitHub, CI/CD, Vercel, S3
Education and Certification
- Scrum certification, SCRUMstudy, 2023
- CS50's Introduction to Computer Science, Harvard University, 2020
- Web Developer Bootcamp, Udemy, 2020
- Network Operator, Kauno Ryšininkų mokykla, 2009 - 2011
Languages
Lithuanian (native) | English (full professional proficiency)