Alex Gabites
Senior Frontend Developer at Thinkmill
Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Gabites is a Senior Frontend Developer with 12 years of full-stack experience building scalable web and mobile applications from Christchurch, New Zealand. He blends product design sensibilities with engineering discipline to take features from conception through delivery, often creating design systems and component libraries that accelerate teams. Alex has led cross-platform projects using React, React Native, TypeScript and AWS-backed APIs, and has driven CI/CD, monorepos and developer tooling to improve velocity and maintainability. He’s contributed to notable open-source work such as improving restful-react’s Poll and Get components, demonstrating deep practical knowledge of React architecture and async testing. Comfortable in consultancy and product teams alike, Alex pairs hands-on coding with client-facing requirements, architecture and agile practices. His background in Computer Science and Philosophy underpins a pragmatic, user-focused approach to complex technical problems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science & Philosophy, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science & Philosophy at University of CanterburyChristchurch Boys High School
Github Skills (9)
async-await10
typescript10
typescripts10
rest10
react10
typescript-types10
es6-promise10
openapi9
swagger9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
contiamo/restful-react
Dec 2019 - Jan 2020
A consistent, declarative way of interacting with RESTful backends, featuring code-generation from Swagger and OpenAPI specs 🔥
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 4 PRs, 24 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alex primarily focused on improving the testing and functionality of the `restful-react` library, specifically concerning the `Poll` and `Get` components. They fixed issues related to asynchronous rendering and added tests to cover promise-based custom headers within the request options. The contributions included refactoring the code, addressing the context-related issues, and exporting useful functions. This involved making significant changes to TypeScript files and demonstrating a solid understanding of the library's React-based architecture.
code-generationredocspecsopenapiconsistent
South-Paw/action-netlify-deploy
Mar 2020 - Sep 2021
🙌 Netlify deployments via GitHub actions
Contributions:12 releases, 13 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 6 months
deploymentdeploymentsnetlify
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