Laurynas Karvelis
Director at Explosive Brains
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLaurynas Karvelis is a Director and hands-on Node.js specialist with 13 years building scalable backend systems, microservices, and serverless architectures for clients across London and beyond. He leads Explosive Brains, delivering contracting services that emphasize well-tested, elegant code and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. His recent work includes two years of quantitative crypto trading systems and contributions to a popular Binance Node.js SDK where he improved backend logic and WebSocket handling. Laurynas combines deep backend expertise with cloud and DevOps experience from senior roles at Pushologies and Wunderman Thompson, and a history in frontend engineering that informs balanced full-stack decisions. He holds a Master’s in International Business and Marketing and a Bachelor in Informatics, blending technical depth with product and business perspective. Colleagues describe him as someone who reliably gets things done that matter to people—simple, scalable solutions rather than unnecessary complexity.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Informatics, Bachelor Informatics at Kaunas University of TechnologyMaster International business and marketing, Master International business and marketing at International Business School at Vilnius University
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
nodejs10
websocket10
rest9
binance9
api9
api-client8
wrapper8
typescript-types5
typescripts5
typescript5
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tiagosiebler/binance
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Node.js & JavaScript SDK for Binance REST APIs & WebSockets, with TypeScript & browser support, integration tests, beautification & more.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 12 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Laurynas primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Binance API client. Their work involved modifying the `lib/rest.js` and `lib/ws.js` files to improve functionality, readability, and error handling. Specific contributions include refactoring methods, adding verbosity to error messages, and experimenting with WebSocket libraries. The user also reverted changes related to the WebSocket implementation.
exchangebinance-apiintegration-testsbrowserapi-wrapper
laurynas-karvelis/binance
Feb 2018 - Jan 2020
A wrapper for the Binance REST and WebSocket APIs. Also beautifies responses
Contributions:13 PRs, 21 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 11 months
apitradingwebsocketcryptocurrencybinance
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