Eduardo García
Senior Frontend Engineer at GitLab
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolEduardo García is a Senior Frontend Engineer based in Frankfurt with 10 years of experience building polished user interfaces and four years focused on TypeScript/JavaScript client-side development. He currently drives frontend work at GitLab and previously led UI and extension development for the widely used open-source Hypothesis annotation client and browser extension. Eduardo blends deep practical knowledge of modern web APIs (Shadow DOM, Channel Messaging), Preact/React, and progressive web patterns with backend and automation experience that helped improve build systems and websocket filters. His background in scientific programming and a PhD in Biochemistry give him a strong data-driven mindset and attention to detail, which he applies to UX refinements, performance optimizations, and cross-platform integrations. Colleagues rely on him to refactor legacy codebases into modern JavaScript and to ship dependable, accessible interfaces in collaborative, open-source projects.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biochemistry, Bachelor's degree Biochemistry at University of NavarraDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry at Brigham Young University
English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (30)
babel610
javascript10
back-end-development10
python10
annotations10
browser-extension10
css10
ui-design10
chrome-extension10
annotation-processing10
uid10
front-end-development10
babel-core10
html10
babeljs10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
hypothesis/client
Sep 2020 - Feb 2022
The Hypothesis web-based annotation client.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:796 reviews, 288 commits, 630 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Eduardo primarily contributed to the front-end of the Hypothesis client, specifically working on the user interface components. They focused on fixing bugs related to the visual presentation and interaction of elements, such as quote highlighting and button functionality. The user also added features, implemented style changes and performed code refactoring. Several commits indicate work on adding new features and enhancing the UI components using Javascript.
javascriptweb-basedannotationfrontend
hypothesis/browser-extension
Oct 2020 - Feb 2022
The Hypothesis browser extensions.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:85 reviews, 37 commits, 166 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Eduardo primarily focused on maintaining and improving the Hypothesis browser extension. Their contributions included updating dependencies like Babel and refactoring code to use modern JavaScript features such as `let` and `const`. The user also worked on improving the user experience by updating instructions and addressing bugs related to LMS assignments. Furthermore, the user implemented a custom debouncing mechanism to optimize the annotation count badge requests.
firefoxbrowserjavascriptwebextensionchrome
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