Mantas Vaitkunas
Chief Technology Officer at Kainoteka
Kaunas, Kaunas County, Lithuania
Summary
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Top SchoolMantas Vaitkunas is a seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience building and scaling web and e-commerce platforms from Lithuania. Currently CTO at Kainoteka, he has repeatedly blended hands-on backend engineering with people leadership—previously founding and leading technical teams as CTO and guild lead at fast-growing companies. He has deep experience modernizing legacy systems and CI/CD pipelines, notably shaving release cycles from weeks to hours while at OXID eSales and contributing substantial maintenance work to the popular OXID eShop CE codebase. Comfortable across architecture, hiring, project planning and A/B-driven product decisions, he pairs a Master’s in Software Systems Engineering with practical startup ownership. Mantas is equally at home writing core PHP backend fixes as mentoring teams and resolving cross-functional challenges. His background shows a rare mix of pragmatic engineering, operational rigor, and entrepreneurial drive.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Software Systems Engineering, Master's degree Software Systems Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology
Lithuanian, English, German
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Github Skills (13)
php10
refactoring10
refactor10
phpunit10
mysql9
ecommerce9
e-mail6
jquery-ui6
html6
docker6
validation6
jquery6
facebook6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
OXID-eSales/oxideshop_ce
Apr 2013 - Dec 2019
OXID eShop CE component
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 1323 commits, 65 PRs in 6 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Mantas's commits primarily focused on removing deprecated code, indicating a role in maintaining and modernizing the codebase. The code changes involved removing instances of obsolete functions and usages, specifically within classes like `oxShopMetaData` and `oxUtilsCount`, and test classes as well. Furthermore, the user made modifications across various files, including test files and core classes such as `oxUtilsserver`, and `oxArticle`, indicating a deep understanding of the system's core functionalities.
ecommercephpoxid-eshopoxid-eshop-componentoxid
OXID-eSales/coding_standards
Feb 2015 - Feb 2018
Contributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 10 pushes in 3 years
phpstandardsoxid-eshopoxideshop
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