Karolis Narkevicius

London, England, United Kingdom

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Summary

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Rockstar

Karolis Narkevicius is a London-based software leader and co-founder with 15 years' experience building developer-facing infrastructure and polished user interfaces. As Co‑Founder of Humaans he blends product-led thinking with hands-on engineering to deliver a smart employee database that simplifies people operations. He previously led product engineering at Qubit and co-founded Zero Technology, giving him a track record of shipping at both startup pace and scale-up rigor. An active open-source contributor, he fixed critical private-registry authentication issues in the widely used Yarn package manager, improving scoped-package workflows for enterprise registries. Passionate about JavaScript, UI craft, web re‑decentralisation and sustainable technology, he pairs an MSc in Computer Science (Edinburgh, 1st class) with a pragmatic, product-focused engineering approach.

15 years of coding experience

Github Skills (11)

package-manager-tool10

user-authentication10

authentication10

javascript10

package-manager10

npm10

javascripts10

package-managers10

yarnpkg10

testing9

api-design8

Programming languages (15)

JavaC++SchemeRustCVueGoHTML

Github contributions (5)

yarnpkg/yarn

Nov 2016 - Oct 2018

The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:8 commits, 11 PRs, 96 comments in 1 year 10 months

Contributions summary:Karolis primarily focused on fixing authentication issues and improving the robustness of the Yarn package manager. Their work involved resolving problems with private registry authentication, especially for scoped packages. They addressed bugs related to authorization headers and registry URL handling, improving the accuracy of authentication. They also addressed issues related to the `yarn pack` command and pathed registries with basic auth support.

berryyarnjavascriptpackage-managerfrozen

KidkArolis/healthier

Jan 2019 - Dec 2022

🧘‍♀️ Healthier is an opinionated style agnostic code linter – a friendly companion to Prettier

Contributions:11 releases, 88 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years

lintereslintagnosticjavascriptstatic-code-analysis

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