contra
Software Engineer at Fractal Innovations, LLC
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Summary
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RockstarGajus Kuizinas is a founder and engineering leader with 14 years of experience building high-performance web platforms and data products, currently serving as Co-Founder and CTO of Contra. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering—evidenced by substantial contributions to widely used open-source projects like gulp's vinyl and responsive React tooling—with strategic product and commercial experience from multiple startups and enterprise roles. Gajus has repeatedly improved scale and performance at scale (e.g., cutting ad load times and page weight at MailOnline) and led data aggregation, licensing and analytics efforts at Applaudience. He is comfortable shipping core library refactors and new APIs as well as architecting cloud-native, containerized systems and real-time platforms. Based in Phoenix, he brings an operator's instincts from fundraising, negotiating data deals and hiring senior teams alongside deep technical craftsmanship. A less obvious strength is his long-running balance of product-led growth and open-source stewardship—his OSS work drives practical improvements used in production across the web.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (14)
stream10
gulp10
filesystem10
javascript10
nodejs10
media-queries10
file-operations10
fileio10
react10
streaming10
testing10
refactor9
refactoring9
git8
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
yocontra/react-responsive
Jul 2018 - Nov 2022
CSS media queries in react - for responsive design, and more.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:82 commits, 102 PRs, 223 pushes in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Contra primarily focused on updating the project's core component library. Their commits involve significant changes to the `react-responsive.js` file, indicating a focus on the project's main functionality. The changes included refactoring and potentially bug fixes related to media queries.
matchmediareactresponsive-designcssmedia-query
gulpjs/vinyl-fs
Feb 2013 - Nov 2017
Vinyl adapter for the file system.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:273 commits, 33 PRs, 59 pushes in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Contra primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the `vinyl-fs` project, a file system adapter. Their commits involved refactoring the codebase, adding new features like the `watch()` API, and fixing existing functionalities to ensure proper stream handling. They also implemented changes to support new options, like the `mode` option and function-based destinations, while refactoring the dest function.
vinylstreamsadapterstreamfile-system
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