Gajus Kuizinas
Co-Founder, CTO at Contra
London, England, United States
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Top SchoolGajus Kuizinas is a Software Architect based in London with 13 years of experience building full-stack JavaScript and Node.js systems, specializing in React, GraphQL and PostgreSQL. He combines hands-on architecture with deep open-source involvement—maintaining and contributing to libraries like react-css-modules, babel-plugin-react-css-modules, and eslint plugins while improving core tools such as webpack and mysql2. His work spans polished front-end interactions (e.g., the swipeable cards in swing) to backend drivers and validation, showing attention to performance, testing, and developer ergonomics. Notably, he frequently authors linting and build-related improvements that surface subtle quality gains across projects, reflecting a focus on long-term maintainability as well as shipping features.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Economics Politics and IR, Economics Politics and IR at Royal Holloway, University of London
Lithuanian, English, French, Russian
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Github Skills (94)
eslint-plugin-jsdoc10
flow-control10
json-schema10
hammer10
testing10
http10
databases10
bundler10
cakephp10
javascript10
component-development10
bundle10
uid10
mochajs10
jsdoc10
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
gajus/react-css-modules
Aug 2015 - Jun 2019
Seamless mapping of class names to CSS modules inside of React components.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 259 commits, 83 PRs in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Gajus primarily worked on enhancing the `react-css-modules` library. Their contributions involved refactoring existing code, debugging issues, and adding new features, such as handling children elements and implementing options like `allowMultiple` and `errorWhenNotFound`. They focused on improving the library's flexibility and usability for developers integrating CSS modules with React components. They also added test cases for ensuring the correct behavior of the library.
reactcsscode-splittingcss-in-jscss-modules
gajus/redux-immutable
Aug 2015 - Mar 2022
redux-immutable is used to create an equivalent function of Redux combineReducers that works with Immutable.js state.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 146 commits, 23 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Gajus primarily focused on refactoring and updating the codebase for the `redux-immutable` repository, which is designed to work with Immutable.js and Redux. They implemented test cases, corrected and updated the codebase, and ensured compatibility with newer versions. They also contributed to the project's build processes, including setting up ES5 distribution and making sure that the project's dependencies are up to date, and fixed linting and code style issues.
reactstate-managementimmutablejsreducerredux-immutable
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