Gytis Vinclovas is a full stack developer with 11 years of experience building web and mobile applications, currently focused on React, Node and GraphQL. He has shipped foundational real-time multiplayer SDKs and developer tooling at Rune, helped simplify component creation and frontend infra at Wix, and rebuilt legacy apps into modern single-page experiences at TransferGo. An active open-source contributor, he maintains and enhances tools used by the React Native community—most notably adding Apollo DevTools support to the popular react-native-debugger and improving Apollo Client DevTools integration. Comfortable across backend (Node, PHP, MySQL) and frontend systems, he blends deep hands-on engineering with product-focused developer experience work. Based in Vilnius, he frequently bridges platform-level architecture and developer ergonomics, often inventing small tools and demos to validate platform capabilities.
The standalone app based on official debugger of React Native, and includes React Inspector / Redux DevTools
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:25 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gytis significantly contributed to integrating Apollo Client devtools into the React Native Debugger project. Their work involved adding support for the Apollo DevTools by implementing a bridge for communication, incorporating version checks, and broadcasting queries and mutations. They also refactored code to streamline messaging and ensure compatibility with the Apollo DevTools, enhancing the debugging capabilities for applications using Apollo Client.
Contributions:8 commits, 2 PRs, 24 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Gytis primarily focused on enhancing the Apollo Client Devtools for React Native. They implemented support for React Native, including displaying the Apollo panel based on a specific flag and moving hooks to the backend for code reuse. Additionally, the user added a feature to set up custom hooks within the React Native debugger, allowing for greater flexibility. Their contributions involved modifications to the devtools background, backend, and related configuration files.
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