Dainius Kniuksta
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Copenhagen, Denmark
Toptal member since February 25, 2020
Dainius is a technology enthusiast with extensive experience in digital product management, strategy, development, and team leadership. He has expertise with adtech and logtech-focused artificial intelligence and machine learning. Dainius has also spoken at technology and digital conferences in Europe and Africa and keeps his skills sharp delivering exciting, robust projects.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Advertising Technology (Adtech)
- Agile Product Management
- Agile Software Development
- Aha!
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Atlassian Suite
- Logistics
- Office 365
Work Experience
Senior Digital Product Manager
A.P. Møller – Mærsk
- Negotiated with stakeholders across the organization on the port ecosystem digital value propositions. Aligned and pursued development and growth activities (directly and via team).
- Contributed to the target operating model definition (product management, role, career, engagements, RACI) as part of the global business transformation.
- Grew the product management capability by hiring and mentoring future product leaders.
Engineering, Product, and Leadership
Adform
- Led and grew the data science team from four to 40 across five countries so we could provide intelligent components to all products.
- Led attribution modeling, household identification, and recommendation engine products.
- Hosted and sponsored numerous events in Europe to secure a consistent pipeline of the best technology talent.
Lecturer, Cloud Computing
Vilnius University
- Taught the classes; Cloud Computing 101 and Benefits for Business in Vilnius, LT, and Grodno, BY.
- Facilitated workshops on the preparation and deployment of basic machine learning workloads on AWS.
- Prepared post-course reference materials for students in Lithuanian and English.
Project History
Scientific Research Optimizing Online Advertising Systems
Acted as product owner and project manager, aligning, coordinating, and prioritizing work for a joint team.
Education
Master's Degree in Digital Business Administration
Mykolas Romeris University - Vilnius, Lithuania
Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science and IT
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University - Vilnius, Lithuania
Certifications
Certified Agile Leadership (part 1)
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Professional
Scrum Alliance
Certified Scrum Product Owner
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Office 365, Atlassian Suite, Slack, Google Workspace, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Sublime Text
Paradigms
Agile Software Development, Agile Product Management, Azure DevOps
Industry Expertise
Logistics
Other
Advertising Technology (Adtech), Aha!, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Web Development, Product Strategy, Startups, Enterprise, Microsoft Office, Data, Analytics
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