Eric Orton is a seasoned QA Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in consumer streaming software, having progressed from customer support roles at TwitchAlerts and Streamlabs to senior QA at Streamlabs/Logitech and now at favorited. He blends hands-on front-end contributions—particularly Vue.js UI work on the widely used open-source streamlabs/desktop project—with test-suite design, triage, and automated pipeline review to ensure product quality and performance. Comfortable working cross-functionally, Eric regularly collaborates with design, dev, and support teams and communicates directly with users on Twitter, Discord, and Zendesk to reproduce and prioritize issues. He’s strong at both macro-level process improvements and micro-level bug hunting under pressure, and has a knack for translating user problems into actionable QA coverage. Based in San Francisco, he pairs community-facing empathy from his customer service background with technical fluency in front-end UX and QA automation. An interesting detail: he contributed UI features like FrankerFaceZ emote integration and Facebook viewer support to a popular open-source streaming client.
Free and open source streaming software built on OBS and Electron.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:1 review, 19 commits, 19 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Eric primarily contributed to the user interface and front-end aspects of the streaming software. Their work includes modifying and adding components within Vue.js, particularly around the chat and stream information interfaces. They integrated new features like FrankerFaceZ emotes and Facebook viewers, updated existing components, and fixed UI-related issues like tooltip descriptions. The user also focused on improving the overall user experience by adding settings and features related to chat and viewer engagement.
Contributions:96 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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