Martynas Bagdonas is a pragmatic full-stack software developer with 12 years of experience building web and backend systems across finance, telecoms, and government-facing projects. He has led IT for a national horse racing association—designing statistics databases, betting and HR systems—and has driven engineering improvements like CI/CD adoption and integration testing in enterprise environments. At iSun AG and previous roles he blended C#, JavaScript and Python to deliver production features, automation scripts and data-modeling solutions. An active open-source contributor, he improved Zotero’s PDF reader and wrote translators for sources like arXiv and Crossref, demonstrating attention to UX and data interchange. Based in the UK, he pairs hands-on implementation skills with stakeholder-facing experience in procurement and reporting, and brings a continual learning mindset to adopting best coding practices.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Software Engineering, (Unfinished), Computer Software Engineering, (Unfinished) at Vilniaus Universitetas
Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:27 reviews, 390 commits, 57 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Martynas's contributions primarily involved enhancing the PDF reader functionality within the Zotero project, likely to improve the user experience. They added support for various features, including annotations, page rotation, and zooming options, demonstrating proficiency in front-end development. Moreover, the user seems to have worked on integrating different components and fixing numerous minor bugs, and improving the layout of the user interface which would fall into the full-stack developer role. The code modifications suggest a focus on creating a more robust PDF viewing experience.
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Martynas primarily contributed to Zotero translators, focusing on importing data from various sources. They developed new translators for arXiv.org, Crossref REST, Library of Congress, and GBV. The user also refactored existing translators, updating them and fixing bugs, including capitalization issues and adding support for new functionality like multiple DOI queries and annotation links in the HTML output.
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