Connor Bär
Senior Frontend Developer at sumup
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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RockstarConnor Bär is a Senior Frontend Developer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building polished, component-driven web applications. He brings deep React expertise, demonstrated by implementing the initial rich-text-react-renderer for Contentful’s widely used rich-text libraries and adding robust unit tests and TypeScript build support. Comfortable shipping production-grade front-end features, he focuses on converting complex rich text documents into maintainable React components and improving developer DX. Outside work he’s an avid rock climber, scuba diver, and cooking enthusiast, traits that reflect his methodical problem-solving and appetite for hands-on challenges.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (14)
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
jestjs9
jes9
jtest9
javascript9
rollupjs8
monorepo7
collections6
svg6
mask6
meteor6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
contentful/rich-text
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Libraries for handling and rendering Rich Text 📄
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 2 PRs, 9 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Connor implemented a React-based rich text renderer, focusing on the core functionality of converting rich text documents into React components. Their primary contribution was the initial implementation of the `rich-text-react-renderer`, defining node and mark renderers to handle various rich text elements. They also added unit tests for the rendering logic and configured the build process to correctly handle `.tsx` files.
monoreporich-text-editorrich-textrenderinghandling
connor-baer/rich-text-to-jsx
Dec 2018 - Sep 2022
📄 Opinionated JSX renderer for the Contentful rich text field type.
Contributions:6 releases, 4 reviews, 64 commits in 3 years 9 months
contentfulfield-typereacttextareacontenteditable
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