Donatas Kučinskas
Backend Engineer at Flo Health Inc.
Vilnius, Vilnius County, Lithuania
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Top SchoolDonatas Kučinskas is a backend engineer with 13 years of experience building robust, scalable systems across startups and large tech companies, currently at Flo Health. He has strong expertise in TDD, clean code and complex system design, with hands-on work in Java, Scala, Python, Go and Ruby across roles at Amazon, Wix and Nasdaq. Donatas has led cross-platform efforts and decentralized networking projects at Mysterium.Network, contributing to the core dVPN node and improving reliability and API behavior. He is also an active open-source contributor, notably improving the django-cms publishing workflow and hardening Mysterium Network Node error handling and build logic. Beyond code, he speaks on software engineering topics and brings an algorithmic teaching background and curiosity about AI and blockchain to practical product development.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Brandos atestatas, Brandos atestatas at Panevėžys Juozas Balčikonis gymnasiumBachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius UniversityComputer Science, Computer Science at Roskilde HandelsskoleRožyno progimnazijaComputer Science, Computer Science at Saturday programming school
Lithuanian, English
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Github Skills (19)
back-end-development10
python10
apidoc10
django10
command-line-interface10
django-cms10
networking10
go10
api10
command-line10
backend10
cli10
go-modules9
distributed-systems8
php6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
mysteriumnetwork/node
Dec 2017 - Apr 2019
Mysterium Network Node - official implementation of distributed VPN network (dVPN) protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 347 commits, 157 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Donatas primarily focused on implementing and modifying backend functionality for the Mysterium Network Node. Their contributions involved fixing connection creation failure handling, integrating a "proposals" endpoint into the connection creation process, improving server response error messages, removing deprecated API calls, and refactoring the codebase to improve readability and maintainability. Additionally, the user updated the build to use more efficient logic.
vpn-clientvpnfreemysterium-networkvpnblockchain
django-cms/django-cms
Aug 2014 - Jun 2015
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 7 PRs, 17 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Donatas primarily contributed to the Django CMS project by addressing bugs and adding new features to the `publisher_publish` management command. This included fixing issues with the alias plugin, adding options for publishing drafts and for specific languages, and incorporating a site option. Their work demonstrates a focus on improving the publishing workflow and enhancing the command-line interface for the CMS.
cmspythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-cms
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