I'm a Software Engineer with a passion for building web applications, specializing in frontend development.
I love open-source—I credit my entire career to it. While I don’t always have time to contribute as much as I’d like, I make it a priority to give back to the community whenever possible.
A selection of my open-source contributions that highlight my skills and impact.
At a previous employer, as part of an initiative to modernize our frontend practices, our team needed a way to share enums between our Laravel backend and React SPA. The existing solution, TypeScript Transformer, was a great starting point but didn’t fully meet our requirements.
To address this, I contributed to the project by submitting pull requests to enhance its extensibility, which were welcomed by the author:
- Extracting output formatting to configurable implementation
- Add support for custom Writers
- Proposed inclusion of a custom adapter
- Developed a custom adapter
These contributions helped streamline our development process by enabling better type safety and code consistency between our backend and frontend.
While working with Symfony's Mailer component, I encountered an issue where AWS authentication was not working correctly. After investigating, I discovered the problem stemmed from the request-signing logic.
Fixing this required a major refactor of the library, which would take time. To address the issue in the interim, I created a custom adapter as a temporary workaround and released it as an open-source package.
- Reported the issue with a reproducer
- Suggested changes to improve extensibility
- Published a custom mailer transport package to provide a temporary fix
This contribution helped bridge the gap while the Symfony maintainers worked on a long-term solution, ensuring projects relying on AWS mail transports could function correctly.
While adopting the Blueprint UI toolkit, I discovered and resolved several issues related to rendering, layout, and styling.
- Ensured popovers re-render when content resizes
- Fixed button text rendering issue when content is
0 - Investigated and reported an issue with nested popovers and menus and event propagation
- Fixed
border-radiusforControlGroupwith a single child - Fixed
border-radiusissue forControlGroupchildren wrapped withPopover
These contributions enhanced layout consistency, visual accuracy, and user experience within the Blueprint UI framework.
While developing an Electron application, we adopted the electron-builder package to manage builds and distribution. During implementation, I identified areas for improvement in the auto-update functionality and contributed enhancements to the project.
- Implemented support for
download-progressevents, enabling real-time progress bars and download speed indicators - Resolved issues with Google Cloud Storage as a hosting provider
- Fixed issue fetching releases from GitHub
These contributions helped improve the developer experience by making the auto-update process more reliable and transparent for users.
I came across a public holiday calculation library on Reddit and decided to contribute in its early stages. My contributions focused on improving code quality and adding support for New Zealand holidays.
- Added support for New Zealand holidays
- Standardized code formatting with php-cs-fixer
- Fixed incorrect timezone for Norway provider causing tests to fail
For a project I was working on, we needed to validate incoming API requests based on a JSON Schema document. Since no existing solution met our needs, I developed a custom library and released it as an open-source package.
Repository: wt-health/laravel-json-schema-request
Back when I was a student (circa 2005–2006), I developed a Firefox addon called Translator. My goal was simple: make translating web pages as seamless as possible. I focused heavily on the user experience, ensuring that translations felt intuitive and integrated smoothly into the browser.
This project was a pivotal moment in my journey as a developer—it was my first real exposure to JavaScript, as well as markup languages like XUL and XSLT. It taught me not just the technical aspects of building browser extensions but also the importance of designing for usability. I received a steady stream of feedback and feature requests, which helped me refine the interface and improve the overall user experience.
Translator gained significant traction, reaching 150,000 daily active users at its peak. At one point, I was even approached to have it featured in a couple of French technology magazines (though I never actually saw the issues!).
Unfortunately, the original codebase was lost when Google Code shut down. However, I later rewrote the addon to leverage modern translation APIs, proxying requests through my own API hosted on Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
I did manage to find this video showcasing the original UI, and as a fun bonus, I even received this cool t-shirt as part of my involvement in the Mozilla community.
Beyond Translator, I was deeply involved in the Addons Mozilla (AMO) community, actively participating in discussions on IRC. I later joined the AMO team as an official reviewer, helping assess addon submissions, conducting manual code reviews, and identifying malicious code.
My earliest open-source contribution came as a student when I got involved with the PEAR community. Communication was primarily done via mailing lists and IRC—I still remember the flack I received for my incorrectly configured spaces in my very first commit!
I was fortunate to be mentored by a core developer, which helped me grow as a programmer. Over time, I contributed by developing several localized validation packages for the PEAR project.
This experience was a foundational moment in my journey as a developer, teaching me the importance of code quality, community collaboration, and maintainability.
I'm always open to collaboration and feedback. If you want to discuss frontend technologies, best practices, or anything else in the software development world, feel free to reach out.