Rokas Anisas

Staff Frontend Engineer

Portrait of Rokas Anisas
Based in
Vilnius, Lithuania

Staff frontend engineer working at the intersection of product design and engineering. Experienced in building robust web experiences, improving frontend performance and reliability, and turning early product prototypes into polished production interfaces. Brings a background in frontend architecture, technical leadership, hiring, and visual design.

Experience

  1. Senior Frontend Developer

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    dash.fi

    Remote

    • Built and shipped customer-facing product features, contributing hands-on from definition through release.
    • Improved system performance and reliability by introducing client-side caching and end-to-end test suites.
    • Turned prototypes supplied by product managers into polished final designs and production-ready interfaces, with ownership of visual and interaction decisions.
  2. Frontend Staff Engineer

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    10 Speed

    Vilnius, Lithuania

    • Set frontend engineering standards and selected technologies for the frontend stack.
    • Led and supported the frontend team through 1-on-1s, work planning, guild events, and hands-on product delivery.
    • Assessed frontend candidates and maintained CI pipelines for web and React Native projects.
  3. Frontend Staff Engineer

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    kevin.

    Vilnius, Lithuania

    • Promoted to staff engineer, continuing to deliver features across the company's frontend projects.
    • Organised informal frontend guild meetings to boost team engagement.
    • Standardised frontend practices, introducing a reusable ESLint config and Git hooks to ease pull-request reviews.
  4. Lead Frontend Engineer

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    kevin.

    Vilnius, Lithuania

    • Proposed and maintained a unified component library, keeping code structure consistent across kevin.'s frontend projects.
    • Led the technical part of frontend hiring and mentored other frontend developers.
  5. Senior Frontend Engineer

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    Devbridge

    Vilnius, Lithuania

    • Promoted to senior engineer, continuing to deliver frontend work across the consultancy's client projects.
    • Made the frontend work hand in hand with the design team, so interfaces shipped as they were designed.
    • Stepped up from mentor to lecturer at Sourcery Academy.
  6. Frontend Engineer

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    Devbridge

    Vilnius, Lithuania

    • Worked across many client projects at a software consultancy, learning fast from the experienced engineers and designers on each team.
    • Mentored students at Sourcery Academy, a Devbridge initiative, alongside client work.

Earlier experience

2016 – 2021

  1. Contract Frontend Developer

    LRT

  2. Contract Frontend Developer

    Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

  3. Contract Frontend Developer

    Cleared

  4. Mentor and Lecturer

    Sourcery Academy, a Devbridge initiative

  5. Graphic Designer

    Lithuanian University of Health Sciences

Competences

Other projects

Projects I built entirely on my own, or where I had full creative freedom over both the design and the code.

  1. Forkplate (opens in a new tab)

    Personal cookbook and meal planner for saving recipes, planning the week, and tracking what you cook.

    forkplate.eu

  2. Kortlist (opens in a new tab)

    Offline-first comparison board for decisions such as cars, houses, and vacations.

    kortlist.eu

  3. CalNote (opens in a new tab)

    Offline notepad calculator for line-by-line maths and reusable variables.

    calnote.eu

  4. Relokantai (opens in a new tab)

    Designed and developed an interactive story about protests in Belarus in close collaboration with its authors.

    relokantai.lrt.lt

  5. Ukraine: grey zone (opens in a new tab)

    Designed and developed an interactive story about conflict regions of Ukraine before the 2022 war.

    pilkojizona.lrt.lt

Education

  • BSc (Hons) Audio and Music Technology, Computer Science and Creative Technologies

    University of the West of England

Languages

Lithuanian
Native tongue
English
Fluent