Fabio Spampinato
Software Engineer at Meta
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFabio Spampinato is a software engineer with 11 years of experience, currently writing production software at Meta from London. He spans full-stack and front-end work, contributing to lightweight browser tooling (cash), VS Code productivity extensions (vscode-todo-plus), and performance-focused benchmarking (js-framework-benchmark). Fabio’s contributions show a knack for pragmatic, minimal solutions—adding concise DOM APIs, refining UI/UX, and squeezing performance out of component implementations. He tends to improve developer-facing tools and end-user experiences alike, from a Markdown note app to a WebTorrent-powered media CLI. Colleagues would describe him as quietly focused on clean, maintainable code and small, high-impact enhancements.
11 years of coding experience
Università di Catania / University of Catania
Github Skills (28)
webtorrent10
javascript10
event-handling10
tagging10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
regex10
inquirer10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
tagit10
react10
jsx10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
notable/notable
Dec 2018 - Mar 2021
The Markdown-based note-taking app that doesn't suck.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 431 commits, 66 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Fabio's commits primarily involved modifications to both the frontend (React) and backend aspects of the application. They focused on enhancing the user interface through features such as improved tag management and more visible placeholders. Additionally, the user contributed to improved performance by optimizing rendering processes and refactoring code within the backend to reduce unnecessary operations. These commits show a focus on improving both the user and the internal efficiency of the application.
note-taking-appreactnoteselectronwindows
fabiospampinato/cash
Apr 2018 - Nov 2022
An absurdly small jQuery alternative for modern browsers.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:37 releases, 442 commits, 52 PRs in 4 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Fabio made several contributions to the "cash" library, primarily focusing on enhancing its functionality related to event handling and DOM manipulation. Their work included adding support for multiple event handling, removing jQuery-like namespaces, and implementing new methods like `$.fn.slice` and `$.fn.replaceWith`. These changes expanded the library's capabilities as a lightweight alternative to jQuery for modern browsers.
jquerybrowserstinyjavascriptjquery-alternative
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