Eric Olkowski
Software Engineer at Red Hat
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEric Olkowski is a software engineer at Red Hat with five years of experience transitioning from a healthcare auditing background into front-end engineering and open-source maintenance. A self-taught developer through The Odin Project, he now maintains TOP's curriculum and Discord community while contributing accessibility-focused lessons and code. At Red Hat he has improved PatternFly React components—converting examples to TypeScript, fixing UI bugs, and enhancing accessibility and documentation across many core components. Driven by personal experience with an eye disease, Eric prioritizes inclusive design and advocates for users with visual, auditory, and cognitive disabilities. His blend of audit-honed attention to detail and community-driven open-source work makes him adept at shipping maintainable, user-centered UI features. Based in New Jersey, he brings a practical, empathetic approach to front-end engineering and a track record of tangible improvements in widely used component libraries.
5 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Accounting, 3.63 GPA, Associate of Science (A.S.), Accounting, 3.63 GPA at Manchester Community College
English
Github Skills (18)
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
typescript10
typescript-types10
html10
selector10
typescripts10
patternfly10
react10
accessibilityservice9
acc9
cascading9
accessibility9
front-end-development9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
TheOdinProject/css-exercises
Aug 2021 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:69 reviews, 90 commits, 99 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project, focusing on CSS exercises. They added solutions and templates for various CSS concepts, including selectors, cascading, and the cascade. The user's work involved modifying and creating HTML and CSS files to demonstrate and solve specific CSS challenges within the Odin Project curriculum.
patternfly/patternfly-react
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A set of React components for the PatternFly project.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1662 reviews, 75 commits, 322 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the PatternFly React component library by implementing new features and addressing bugs in existing components, with a significant focus on improving the `TimePicker` component's functionality, including auto-setting the direction based on space, fixing event handling, and addressing scrolling issues. Additionally, the user converted multiple examples to TypeScript and functional components across various components like `CalendarMonth`, `Card`, `ChipGroup`, `Checkbox`, `Chip`, `Divider`, `DescriptionList`, `DataListCheck`, `DualListSelector`, and `Dropdown`, enhancing code maintainability and readability. The contributions involved significant updates to documentation, accessibility, and overall UI improvements to multiple components, while also fixing critical issues with existing components such as the `Menu`, `NotificationDrawer`, `Tabs`, `ClipboardCopy`, `CalendarMonth`, `DataListCheck`, `Pagination`, `Modal`, and `Select`.
reactbootstrap3patternflyreact-componentsreactjs
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