Juozas Gaigalas
Independent Contractor at St Joseph River Basin Commission
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
Summary
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Top SchoolJuozas Gaigalas is an independent contractor and seasoned software engineer with 18 years of experience building full-stack, cloud-native, and geospatial applications from research prototypes to production systems. He blends front-end polish (notably contributions to the Flux CD website and VS Code extension UX) with back-end and infrastructure expertise spanning Kubernetes, Terraform, Chef, AWS and automation tooling. His background ranges from game engine and multimedia work to hydrological modeling and web map systems—he built a hydrological flow model for a 12,000 km basin and a responsive web map to make complex environmental data fast and accessible. Juozas has driven developer experience at Weaveworks and large-scale automation at Accenture and Intuit, routinely improving usability and deployment velocity. An active open-source contributor, he focuses on UI/visualization, geoinformatics and developer tooling, with a knack for turning complex data and distributed systems into intuitive interfaces. Based in Kaunas, Lithuania, he pairs academic rigor from climate and Earth science research with pragmatic engineering for real-world impact.
18 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
George Mason University
Github Skills (16)
html10
css10
ruby-rails10
responsive-design10
javascript10
rails10
website-design10
website-development10
ruby10
documentation8
pagination8
translation8
cil4
cd4
kubernetes3
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
fluxcd/website
Apr 2021 - Nov 2021
The Flux website and user documentation
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 60 commits, 19 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Juozas primarily focused on updating the website's front-end components. They adjusted the layout of single-page content, restored the asciinema-player component, and implemented a responsive flexbox navbar. Further contributions included style and color modifications on the front page, improvements to the community section, and updates to the landing page, encompassing the resources section and the adopters carousel. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the website's user interface and overall user experience.
user-documentationkubernetesfluxfluxcdcd
rubysherpas/forem
Jan 2012 - Jul 2012
The best Rails 3 and Rails 4 forum engine. Ever.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Juozas contributed to the `forem` forum engine by addressing translation key issues and improving the user interface. They added the ability to show the post the user is replying to and made pagination improvements. Furthermore, the user implemented human-friendly URLs for categories, forums, and topics using the `friendly_id` gem and utilized a content tag for the pagination helper. Finally, they integrated a sanitization feature for user input using `Forem.formatter`.
railseverforumforum-engineruby
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