Portfolio

Arvydas Vingis

Web Engineer at Vinted

I build and own core marketplace experiences across Vinted: I've worked on homepage and currently own catalog and search. I like to understand the product problem behind what I build and make engineering decisions with the user’s experience in mind.

Experience

Web Engineer at Vinted

2026-03 - Current

Building and owning core customer-facing experiences across Vinted's marketplace.

  • Own and develop core customer-facing catalog and search experiences (previously owned homepage).
  • Deliver UI changes supporting current product and business initiatives.
  • Advance frontend modularization and support service extractions from the frontend side.
  • Implement observability and metrics using Prometheus and Grafana dashboards.
  • Own the reliability, maintenance, and evolution of the areas I work on.

Technology Consultant at EY

2025-11 - 2026-02

Modeled governmental institutions' metadata for an EU interoperability initiative.

  • Collaborated with institutional representatives to document data holdings and refine data models.
  • Analyzed legal documents and translated institutional requirements into metadata models.
  • Used SEMIC vocabularies to enrich metadata and improve interoperability.

Projects

TimeTracker

React + .NET 8 app with JWT auth and clean architecture.

Technologies: React, TypeScript, TanStack Query, .NET 8, EF Core, MySQL, Zoho Mail SMTP

  • JWT authentication
  • Email confirmation & password reset with automatically emailed expiring tokens
  • Time entries CRUD with validation
  • Deployed on cloud Ubuntu server with systemd & Nginx

Source codeLive website

Karate Tournament Bracket

Node.js + Express app for managing traditional karate-do tournaments. Supports kumite single-elimination, kata double-elimination brackets, and kata points mode. Version 1 is archived.

Technologies: Node.js, Express, EJS, JavaScript, CSS

  • Bracket visualization, next-up feature, and results tracking
  • Tested and successfully used in real club tournaments
  • Improved administrative efficiency by ~60% and reduced paper usage by ~90%
  • Supports single- and double-elimination brackets with alternating match selection and points-based scoring

Source code

Portfolio-OS (this website)

Simplified desktop OS-style portfolio website built with Next.js and Tailwind CSS.

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Next.js, Tailwind CSS

  • Draggable, resizable app windows and custom dock navigation
  • Interactive terminal built with XTerm.js, supporting commands, history, and window controls
  • Dark/light theme toggle and lite mode for reduced resource usage
  • Deployed as a static Next.js export on an Ubuntu server

Source code

The Wild Oasis

Luxury cabin administration system for managing cabin information, checking in guests, and configuring booking settings. Built during a React course.

Technologies: React, TanStack Query, Styled components, React Router, React Hook Form

  • Supabase authentication and authorization
  • Full CRUD for cabins, bookings, and guests
  • Reusable styled components, React Hot Toast notifications, and form validation with React Hook Form
  • Dashboard with KPIs and Recharts visualizations, with TanStack Query caching

Source code

The Wild Oasis (client side)

Luxury cabin website where guests can view cabins and create, update, and manage bookings through a personal account area. Built during a React course.

Technologies: React, Next.js, TanStack Query, Tailwind CSS, NextAuth v5, React Day Picker

  • Google Sign-In integration with NextAuth v5
  • Supabase integration for guests, cabins, and bookings with server actions
  • Interactive date range picker with booked-date blackout, capacity checks, and price calculation
  • Guest area for viewing and editing reservations and updating profile information

Source code

University Website AI Assistant

Chatbot-style AI assistant that helps students navigate complex university websites. Built for a university project using web scraping, semantic search (SentenceTransformer MiniLM-L6-V2), and Google Gemini 2.0 Flash.

Technologies: React, Semantic Search, Gemini API, Python, FastAPI, Sentence Transformers, BeautifulSoup

  • RAG pipeline: scraping, text chunking, MiniLM-L6-V2 embeddings, semantic search, and Gemini 2.0 Flash answers
  • Understands student intent through keyword similarity to minimize Gemini workload and provides links to relevant pages
  • Lets users select the scraping duration to balance search depth and time based on their preferences
  • Interactive React interface and FastAPI backend that respect robots.txt and cache search results

Source code

Skills and interests

Web Engineering

React, TypeScript, Next.js, Accessible UI, Marketplace experiences

Frontend Architecture

Modularization, Service extraction, Component architecture, UI ownership

Observability

Prometheus, Grafana, Metrics, Dashboards, SLOs

Data Interoperability

Metadata modeling, SEMIC vocabularies, Semantic interoperability, Data documentation

Backend & Infrastructure

.NET 8, REST APIs, MySQL, Ubuntu, Nginx, Git

Engineering Interests & AI

AI-assisted software engineering, Coding agents & agentic workflows, Harness engineering, Loop engineering, Reusable agent skills, Emerging AI tools

Education

Software Systems, Bachelor of Computing, Kaunas University of Technology

Contact

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About Me

I'm Arvydas — a Web Engineer at Vinted. I build and own core marketplace experiences across Vinted: I've worked on homepage and currently own catalog and search. I like to understand the product problem behind what I build and make engineering decisions with the user’s experience in mind.

  • Software Systems, Bachelor of Computing, Kaunas University of Technology
  • Professional experience: core marketplace UI, frontend modularization, observability, and metadata interoperability
  • Stack: React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, C#/.NET, MySQL, Ubuntu + Nginx
  • Black belt in Traditional Karate Do — discipline, patience, continuous improvement

I care about code quality, but even more about the problem the code solves. I value practical solutions that help people and enjoy thinking about both the technical and user sides of a product.