Summary
Karolis Kajėnas is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience delivering resilient, low-latency systems for financial institutions and market-data platforms. Based in San Francisco and currently at Bloomberg, he has led projects that include a FIX-based pricing stack, reactive Kafka clients, and automation that tripled post-trade throughput—demonstrating a strong focus on performance and operational stability. He combines deep expertise in Rx, WPF, unit testing, and software architecture with hands-on networking know-how to shorten delivery times and reduce incidents to zero across multi-month runs. A former internal educator who helped colleagues advance into new roles, he brings a pragmatic mentoring style alongside technical leadership. Trained with a Master of Informatics from Vilnius University, Karolis excels at translating complex trading and data problems into reliable, production-grade solutions.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Informatics Engineering, Information Technology, Bachelor of Informatics Engineering, Information Technology at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Master of Informatics, Information Technology, Master of Informatics, Information Technology at Vilniaus universitetas / Vilnius University
English, Lithuanian