Vaidas G

Magento 2 Developer

Hi, my name is Vaidas, and I am Magento developer with 16 years of experience in the field. I began working with Magento in 2009, and the beginning of my developer career goes back all the way to 1998 where I was writing C programs and experimenting with Red Hat Linux on my home PC.

My portfolio and completed work

  • 2009 - (ancient times) - a build of a performance car parts website in Magento 1.x - my first Magento website which I never got paid for :) The client ghosted me, but the experience proved enough to get my first contract:
  • 2011 - The Royal Collection - Magento developer at digital agency Other Media
  • 2012 - Stylistpick - Magento developer, various back-end improvements
  • 2012 Spring Studios - Magento contract developer, implementation of a bespoke e-commmerce website for a new clothing brand "Hunter Gather" (now defunct) more...
  • 2013 - made.com - Magento contractor, working on frontend templates and tax calculation more...
  • 2013 - AlexAndAlexa.com - now BabyShop, Magento performance improvements more...
  • 2015 - Allbeauty.com - Contract Magento developer more...
  • 2016 to 2018 - Ryman and RobertDyas - Magento contractor at Theo Paphitis Retail Group, worked on a complete website overhaul, performance improvements, PageSpeed and Full-Page Cache troubleshooting more...
  • 2019 to 2024 - Bikeshop.lt - Magento developer, upgraded the website from Magento 1 to Magento 2 more...
  • 2025 - Selection Corporate Clothing - Magento developer, worked on a custom Docker build and troubleshooting production website issues, communicated with customers regarding API integrations and implemented an issue tracking system and a project management framework, new to the company at the time, using Atlassian Jira.
  • 2025 - UK Meds - Senior Magento Developer, worked on Next.js front-ends using React ant Typescript, utilising Vercel. Created custom Magento 2 API endpoints to deliver data into a Next.js based dashboard application hosted on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Worked on a Medusa.js website and custom dasboard applications connected to PostgreSQL.
  • 2026 - working on a custom Docker build, no AI, observing best practices and patterns of vanilla Magento to make it as compact and performant as it can be. Specifically, using an underpowered desktop machine to make it as universal and lightweight as possible and provide a framework of microservices to run it on AWS.