Benas Nekrošius
Lead Backend Engineer at Vinted
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
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Top SchoolBenas Nekrošius is a Lead Backend Engineer with 10 years of full-stack experience, now focused on driving backend excellence at Vinted after senior roles at Booking.com and KAYAK. He blends a competitive programming background—strong algorithms and data structures—with a designer’s eye for performant, accessible, and pixel-accurate UIs. Benas has led major frontend migrations, coached teams through new stacks, and sustained +80 Web Vitals on complex SEO pages while delivering marketing campaigns with massive reach. He’s curious about novel practices like sustainable web development and builds pragmatic tooling (component tracking, reusable core UI) to improve decision making. Based in Kaunas, Lithuania, he pairs hands-on delivery with mentoring and process improvements across product and engineering.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology
English, Lithuanian
Stackoverflow
58reputation
3kreached
5answers
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Github Skills (27)
authentication9
stripe9
oauth9
frontend8
performance-analysis8
typescript8
audit8
lighthouse8
css7
developer-tools7
auditing7
html6
css-float6
react6
php6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
benNek/advent-of-code
Dec 2022 - Dec 2025
Contributions:101 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
Naidze/TowerDefence
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:38 pushes in 3 months
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