Claudio Cortese is a founder and full‑stack developer with eight years’ experience building scalable web and mobile applications, cloud‑native services, and complex integrations from Naples, Italy. He leads The Byte‑sized, coordinating specialist freelancers to deliver rapid, pragmatic solutions with a focus on automation, CI/CD and microservices. Equally comfortable in React/React Native front‑ends and TypeScript/Node backends (Express/Fastify with GraphQL and REST), he has a track record of shipping high‑performance UIs and resilient APIs for clients like Luxottica and fintech/public sector projects. An active open‑source contributor, he improved UI components in the notable react-materialize library, demonstrating attention to UX details and code modernization. Known for mentoring, hackathon participation and a daily “Learn Something New Every Day” practice, he blends hands‑on engineering with product sensibility and rapid delivery.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Informatica, Informatica at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Material design for react, powered by materializecss
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:182 commits, 87 PRs, 217 comments in 2 years
Contributions summary:Claudio primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of React components within the `react-materialize/react-materialize` repository. Their work involved implementing new features, such as the ability to center the brand logo in the navbar and transition FAB into a toolbar. They also focused on refactoring the codebase using ES6 classes syntax and updating components, demonstrating a focus on UI development and component maintenance. The user improved the functionality of existing components like Card and Chip.
Contributions:10 PRs, 20 pushes, 21 branches in 5 years 10 months
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