Dominykas Blyžė, Developer in Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
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Dominykas Blyžė

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Software Developer

Location
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
Toptal Member Since
January 8, 2016

Dominykas is a front-end developer with over several years of experience building applications on the .NET platform. He is a versatile coder developing with JavaScript, Node.js, and PHP (Zend certified). He also has full-stack development experience and has also worked on the back-end. He is an excellent communicator with an eye for details and is very professional. He would make an excellent asset on any project.

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Node.js, Vagrant, Git, WebStorm

The most amazing...

...job I've done was when I led the team that refactored 900 kb of slow JS into 3x150 kb bundles of fast JS.

Work Experience

Senior Software Developer

2016 - PRESENT
nearForm Ltd
  • Implemented continuous delivery of a large scale enterprise project in a multi-tenant set up.
  • Built developer tools and made some CI/CD pipeline improvements.
  • Wrote a performance analysis and made improvements.
  • Worked on full-stack development.
Technologies: Ansible, React, Node.js

Lead Developer

2013 - 2017
Inside Warehouse UAB
  • Performed test-driven development on architecture for a multi­tier project; utilizing Java, Lucene, Solr, and MySQL with replication.
  • Developed a fully functional web shop; which was embeddable on 3rd party sites.
  • Developed, automated a lot of tasks, and implemented performance scaling.
  • Prevented a one­-off full­scale rewrite in favor of continuous delivery.
  • Led teams of developers (2-4).
Technologies: ECMAScript (ES6), PHP, Browserify, Less, JavaScript, Node.js

Part-time Lead Developer

2012 - 2013
gsmExchange Ltd.
  • Performed responsive redesign, technology upgrades, and project management of teams of 3-­4 people.
  • Delivered without delays continuously for the entire project.
  • Handled a dual HDD failure without downtime.
Technologies: Sass, PhoneGap, PHP, Node.js

Senior Front-end Engineer

2008 - 2013
Ammado Internet Services Ltd.
  • Led the front-end development for the Giving Widget (embeddable donations) and Payroll Giving projects.
  • Led teams of 3-­5 developers on various projects from technical design up to middle tier, UI reviews, and code reviews.
  • Developed a declarative web form validation framework in JavaScript and C#.
  • Implemented and constructed JavaScript optimization and architecture (refactored 900 kb to just over 400 kb with a team).
  • Conducted usability research and web analytics.
Technologies: YUI, JavaScript, C#, ASP.NET MVC

Lead Developer

2005 - 2008
gsmExchange Ltd
  • Performed daily maintenance of the website.
  • Built a CRM with call scheduling, integrated email ,and overall company management capabilities.
  • Implemented SEO, SEM, and improved usability; the website activity numbers improved by 50­ - 100%.
  • Developed a custom internal marketplace for Vodafone Global GmbH while leading a team of 3-5 people.
  • Migrated the system from ASP to PHP, MS SQL to MySQL in order to improve speed, maintenance and consistency.
Technologies: LAMP

Web Developer

2001 - 2005
Freelance
  • Built a content management system (CMS).
  • Provided custom development solutions.
  • Interacted directly with clients in order to service their needs the best way possible.
  • Implemented system administration and worked on the infrastructure.
Technologies: MySQL, PHP

HTML5 Outliner

https://github.com/h5o
This is a JavaScript library and Chrome extension.

Buster.JS

https://github.com/busterjs
Made a contribution on a JavaScript TDD framework.

Professional Development Presentation Slides

https://speakerdeck.com/dominykas
These are slides from several presentations on JavaScript and Node.js; they were given to those user groups in Dublin, Vilnius, and Kaunas.
MAY 2007 - PRESENT

Zend Certified Engineer

Zend Technologies Ltd

Languages

JavaScript, PHP, CSS, C#, ECMAScript (ES6), Less, Bash, Java, Sass

Libraries/APIs

Node.js, YUI, React

Frameworks

Hapi.js, ASP.NET MVC, Express.js, PhoneGap

Tools

Browserify, WebStorm, Git, Vagrant, Ansible

Storage

MySQL, CouchDB

Paradigms

Test-driven Development (TDD), Continuous Delivery (CD), Agile Software Development

Platforms

LAMP

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