Marija J.-Scrum Master · Certified Professional Coach · Former iOS & Backend Engineer
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Experience
Professional Coach for IT Professionals
- Coach international tech professionals through career transitions, helping high achievers move from reactive decision-making to clarity-driven career and life choices.
- Combined software engineering and consulting background with coaching expertise to address challenges specific to the tech industry, including career stagnation, imposter syndrome, and uncertainty around AI's impact on the field.
- Some of my client's measurable outcomes include landing multiple concurrent interview processes after a multi-year career gap, launching independent product ventures, securing technical roles that improved both financial stability and job performance, transitioning into non-tech careers.
- ~200 hours of coaching sessions. Guided clients through 1:1 and group coaching engagements, ranging from single sessions to year-long partnerships, focused on sustainable, values-aligned career growth.
IT Consultant
Netlight
Agile Coach/Scrum Master:
- Coached a cross-functional Virtual Power Plant team at a hyper-scaling Solar Energy company, strengthening Agile practices, team cohesion, and delivery.
- Led the successful release of a gate management system that had stalled for over a year, coordinating its integration with the company's supply and disposal platform.
- Facilitated conflict resolution and alignment between engineering, product, and business stakeholders, sharpening priorities and feedback loops.
- Fostered continuous improvement, ownership, and sustainable ways of working to support the team's ability to scale.
- Introduced Agile ways of working and Scrum within a traditional, waterfall-oriented corporation, driving incremental delivery, transparent prioritisation, and continuous stakeholder feedback.
- Bridged engineering, business, and product stakeholders to overcome technical and organisational barriers, establishing a more adaptive, collaborative, and user-focused way of working.
iOS Developer / Acting iOS Team Lead:
- Took over leadership of the iOS team following the departure of the iOS Lead, providing direction, mentoring, and team coordination.
- Rebuilt a Premium Chauffeur Service Company's iOS application MVP from scratch, establishing the technical foundation for the new mobile product.
- Recruited and onboarded new mobile engineers, actively participating in engineering interviews.
- Integrated Firebase, Crashlytics, TestFlight, and backend services to support development, monitoring, and release management, while continuing to maintain and release the legacy iOS application.
- Drove technical refinements and cross-team collaboration. Mentored a designer new to iOS on key practices from Apple's Human Interface Guidelines.
- Developed SwiftUI-based interfaces for managing creators and video-on-demand content for a German Streaming Company's iOS app.
- Led the integration of GetStream for chat, including custom UI work for a seamless look and feel. The feature launched successfully, reaching over 90,000 users at release.
IT Project Manager
Siemens Financial Services IT
- Tracked, analysed, and reported data on the use of SFS IT services.
- Rolled out Windows Branch Update 20H2 to all SFS employee devices so far. Prepared an adoption support plan. Monitored the adoption rate.
- Came up with a new user engagement strategy that rewards the users for taking care of their device's health and improving their IT skills. One of my ideas was implemented Siemens-wide by the central IT department.
Backend Software Engineer
Microsoft
.NET development of infrastructure and services for a Azure's Speech Recognition services:
- Optimised task scheduling pipeline. Reduced service bus messages by ~20x.
- Released a completely new Speech Recognition Services REST API (v3).
- Reduced REST API response times by optimising our database queries.
- Implemented a dynamic service configuration management solution that allowed changing service parameters during runtime (without new deployment).
iOS Developer
Barclays Technology Centre Lithuania
- Launched and further developed a currency rate tracker app "FX Powered by Barclays".
Industry experience
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Experienced in Information Technology, Energy, Media and Entertainment, and Banking and Finance.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.
Summary
Combining a technical engineering background with certified coaching to help teams achieve peak performance while protecting their well-being.
Skills
Agile & Scrum: Scrum, Agile Coaching, Sprint Planning, Retrospectives, Backlog Refinement, Sprint Reviews, Continuous Improvement, Servant Leadership
Individual And Team Coaching: 1:1 & Group Coaching, Career Coaching, Life Coaching, Goal Setting, Accountability Partnership, Emotional Regulation, Mindset Coaching, Values Clarification
Team & Stakeholder Management: Team Facilitation, Stakeholder Management, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Conflict Resolution, Team Empowerment, Team Coaching, Change Management
Delivery: Prioritisation, Impediment Removal, Release Management, Dependency Management, Risk Management, Agile Transformation
Technical: Software Development Lifecycle, Technical Coaching, Engineering Practices, Apis, Cloud, Ios, Backend Development, Copilot, .Net, C#, Swift, Ci/Cd
Tools: Jira, Confluence, Azure Devops, Azure Boards, Sharepoint
Holistic Skills: Nervous System Regulation Exercises, Bodywork, Breathwork Facilitation
Languages
Education
Technical University of Munich
B.Sc. · Computer Science · Munich, Germany
Certifications & licenses
Barclays Technology Apprenticeship Program, graduation certificate
International Coaching Certification
World Coaching Organisation
Master Coach Certification (in progress)
World Coaching Organisation
Scrum.org
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Marija is based in Berlin, Germany.
Marija speaks the following languages: Lithuanian (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced), Italian (Elementary).
Marija has at least 10 years of experience. During this time, Marija has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 4 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 11 months. Note that Marija may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Marija would be well-suited for roles such as: Professional Coach for IT Professionals, IT Consultant, IT Project Manager.
Marija's most recent position is Professional Coach for IT Professionals.
In recent years, Marija has worked for Netlight and Siemens Financial Services IT.
Marija is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Energy, and Media and Entertainment. Marija also has some experience in Banking and Finance.
Marija is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.
Marija has recently worked in industries like Energy, Media and Entertainment, and Information Technology.
Marija has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development.
Marija holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from Technical University of Munich.
Marija has 4 certificates. Among them, these include: Barclays Technology Apprenticeship Program, graduation certificate, International Coaching Certification, and Master Coach Certification (in progress).
Marija is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
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