Ariya Hidayat is a seasoned software engineer and technology leader with 19 years of experience building high-performance front-ends and architectures from startups to enterprise acquisitions. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he has held senior roles including Chief Architect at Metabase and VP of Engineering at Shape Security (acquired for $1B), and now contributes to Remote Browser. A prolific open-source contributor, Ariya has notable front-end work on Metabase—adding features like waterfall charts and fixing complex UI tests—and historical contributions to PhantomJS and kinetic scrolling libraries that show deep UI/UX and tooling expertise. He blends hands-on coding with architectural vision, often improving developer experience through better testing and example-driven documentation. His academic background in engineering physics and a doctoral focus in electrical engineering give him a strong foundation for solving low-level and system design challenges.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor Electrical Engineering, Doctor Electrical Engineering at Paderborn University
B.Sc. and M.Eng Engineering Physics, B.Sc. and M.Eng Engineering Physics at Institut Teknologi Bandung
Contributions:1163 commits, 129 PRs, 157 pushes in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ariya appears to be a full-stack developer contributing to the "ariya/phantomjs" repository, a headless browser project. Their commits focused on adding example JavaScript scripts to demonstrate features of the API, such as web server creation, form handling, and PDF generation. They integrated new functionality by including code examples and added code for handling various user-agent and proxy-related command-line options.
Contributions:23 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ariya primarily contributed to the front-end development of a JavaScript kinetic scrolling library. Their work involved implementing basic touch-and-drag scrolling, adding visual styles via CSS, and integrating Pure CSS for styling. The user further developed features such as a flick list with momentum, snap-to-grid behavior, and a horizontal swipe with parallax effects. The code changes demonstrate a strong focus on UI and user interaction.
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