Fabian Hiller
Founding Engineer at Stealth Startup
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolFabian Hiller is a founding engineer and prolific open-source maintainer based in New York with eight years of experience building developer-facing libraries and consumer web products. He created Valibot and Formisch, co-created Standard Schema, and runs projects that together exceed 120 million monthly npm downloads, with sponsorship from companies like Vercel and DigitalOcean. Fabian blends product-focused startup experience—from CTO and CEO roles to founding engineering at a stealth startup—with hands-on front-end work, notably improving UI and routing for the modular-forms library used across SolidJS, Qwik and Preact. He holds advanced CS studies at Pace and a background in mobile media from Stuttgart, and often pairs educational content creation with production-grade engineering, reflecting a rare mix of community impact and practical product delivery.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mobile Medien (Software development and design), Bachelor of Science - BS, Mobile Medien (Software development and design) at Stuttgart Media UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Pace University
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Github Skills (10)
solidjs10
typescript10
typescripts10
website-development10
front-end-development10
react10
typescript-types10
ui-components10
apidoc9
preact8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fabian-hiller/modular-forms
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
The modular and type-safe form library for SolidJS, Qwik and Preact
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:134 releases, 13 reviews, 130 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Fabian primarily contributed to the website component of the modular-forms repository, focusing on improving the user interface and experience. They fixed client-side routing issues, restructured the API reference navigation, and addressed several bugs in the website's components. Furthermore, the user refactored and extended several components, added new icons, and implemented various enhancements like hover animations, demonstrating a strong focus on front-end development and UI improvements.
form-librarypreactqwiksolidjstypesafe
megalink-io/design-system
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
The Megalink Design System powers our frontend apps. It contains reusable UI components that help us build complex, durable, and accessible user interfaces across our projects.
Contributions:2 releases, 115 commits, 43 pushes in 4 months
frontendui-components
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