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Karolis Zilinskas

Enthusiast · DISC type i
Director of Engineering, Marketplace Product Security at Vinted
📍 Lithuania

Karolis is an engineering leader with 14 years of IT experience, currently serving as a Director of Engineering at Vinted. He specializes in marketplace product security, leading teams focused on fighting bots, preventing account takeovers, and migrating from monolithic to service-oriented architectures. His background includes managing global IT operations at AmerisourceBergen and Barclays.

Outside of his primary tech career, Karolis has a significant passion for beekeeping, a hobby inherited from his grandfather. He tends to hives on his balcony and in his yard, and enjoys sharing his unique honey with friends and family.

He is the president of the Lithuanian Bodybuilding Federation and the first person in the Baltic states to become a highest-level bodybuilding judge.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Director of Engineering, Marketplace Product Security
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Lithuania
Personality Overview

How Karolis shows up

Consensus Focused
Story Driven
Amiable & Agreeable

They tend to be agreeable by nature, so take their promises with a pinch of salt.
 They prefer to build relationships rather than staying totally transactional. Unlike D or C types, they are convinced more by stories and testimonials.

Priorities

Topics Karolis cares about

Marketplace Security
Leads Vinted's product security domain, focusing on protecting users from scams, fraud, counterfeit listings, and account takeovers.
Fighting Bots
He is deeply involved in building anti-bot capabilities from scratch to protect the user experience and prevent financial losses for the company.
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Career

Work history

5-2025
Director of Engineering, Marketplace Product Security
Vinted
1-2022 - 8-2025
Engineering Manager
Vinted
5-2021 - 1-2022
Engineering Team Lead
Vinted
9-2019 - 5-2021
Director, IT Command Center
AmerisourceBergen
1-2017 - 9-2019
Global Head of File Services & Regional Head of Storage Lithuania
Barclays
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Education
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ISM University of Management and Economics
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DISC profile (public)

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Influence (I)

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