Diego Vazquez is a seasoned JavaScript and React-focused engineer from Montevideo with 11 years of experience building web and mobile solutions and a background in computer engineering. He has shipped production front-end and PDF-focused tooling—contributing major features and UI refactors to the widely used react-pdf project and its public site—alongside roles at Scale AI, Moove It and digital publishers. Diego combines hands-on library development (document, page, text and font features) with practical product work, and he has taught and authored advanced React courses, showing a knack for distilling complex concepts. Known for meticulous, iterative craftsmanship—“taking my time to perfect the bit”—he blends engineering rigor with a strong emphasis on maintainable UI and developer experience.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Baccalaureate's degree, Baccalaureate's degree at Colegio Seminario
Computer Engineer, Computer Science, Computer Engineer, Computer Science at Universidad Católica del Uruguay 'Dámaso Antonio Larranaga'
Contributions:58 releases, 169 reviews, 877 commits in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily focused on developing and enhancing the `react-pdf` library, contributing significant features and improvements. The commits demonstrate the implementation of new elements like document, page, rect, and circle, along with enhancements for text, image and font features. Moreover, the user refactored code, replaced `require` statements with `import` statements and provided examples.
Contributions:29 reviews, 247 commits, 123 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily focused on refactoring and implementing UI components for the `react-pdf-site` repository. They refactored existing components like `CodeBlock` and `Heading`, introducing styled components for improved UI design and maintainability. Furthermore, the user added and integrated new components such as `List`, `ListItem`, `Blockquote`, `Paragraph`, `Link`, `Table`, `InlineCode`, and `ThematicBreak`, enhancing the website's rendering capabilities and overall user experience.
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