Eric Kwoka
Front End Engineer at Self-employed
Roseville, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarEric Kwoka is a Front End Engineer and former US Marine with seven years of experience building accessible, high-performance customer portals for FinTech and eCommerce startups. He specializes in React, Alpine, and TypeScript, and frequently architects small full-stack solutions using Next.js, Django, PostgreSQL, and Shopify/Liquid. Eric contributes to notable open-source projects like Alpine.js—improving core behaviors, tests, and edge-case handling—and has optimized static-site routing performance in other libraries. He combines hands-on component development with UX-led revenue optimization work, having driven measurable gains for clients through research, testing, and implementation. Comfortable leading small teams and managing AWS infrastructure, he brings disciplined project execution from his military logistics background to complex web problems. Colleagues value his knack for breaking hard problems into simple, accessible steps that ship.
7 years of coding experience
English, Korean
Github Skills (8)
html10
dom-manipulation10
javascript10
cypress10
alpinejs10
performance-optimization10
front-end-development9
css5
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
alpinejs/alpine
Mar 2022 - Nov 2022
A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:98 reviews, 5 commits, 44 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributes to the Alpine.js framework, focusing on bug fixes, feature enhancements, and test implementations within the JavaScript codebase. They addressed issues related to the framework's core functionality, such as transition handling, model binding, and event handling, and also improved the testing suite by adding new tests and refining existing ones. Their contributions included improvements to the code's efficiency and addressing specific edge cases within the framework's directives and plugins.
pjaxminimal-frameworkjavascriptmarkupknockoutjs
fireship-io/flamethrower
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
A blazingly fast router for static sites
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 15 comments in 6 days
Contributions summary:Eric primarily focused on optimizing and improving the performance of the front-end router library. Their work included refactoring and optimizing the DOM diffing algorithm used for updating the page content, along with a bug fix to prevent undefined errors related to node references. They also removed unnecessary comments and made build configurations. They also made modifications to the example HTML files.
static-sitessgstatic-sitessolid-jsblazingly-fast
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