Franco Arza - Founding Member at awwwards.

Franco Arza

Founding Member at awwwards.

Argentina

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Franco Arza is a founding member and front-end engineer with 11 years building browser-first products that prioritize craft over buzz. He co-runs darkroom.engineering, a distributed dev/design studio known for shipping practical, well-crafted tools like Lenis (smooth scroll) and tackling tricky cross-browser edge cases. His background blends code, design, startups and a successful consumer brand exit, informing a pragmatic approach that favors doing over talking. Awwwards development jury member and former technical director, he shapes both the work and the ways teams work—no middle managers, no busywork. Based in Argentina, he iterates daily (1% everyday) and brings a designer’s eye to engineering trade-offs most devs overlook.

11 years of coding experience

9 years of employment as a software developer

Lic. en Filosofia, Filosofia, Lic. en Filosofia, Filosofia at Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata

Tecnico Superior en Sistemas Informaticos, Programación informática, Tecnico Superior en Sistemas Informaticos, Programación informática at Universidad Tecnológica Nacional

Spanish, English

Github Skills (4)

smooth-scrolling10

front-end-development10

javascript10

user-interface10

Programming languages (6)

TypeScriptC++CSSJavaScriptHTMLGLSL

Github contributions (5)

darkroomengineering/lenis

Mar 2022 - Jan 2023

How smooth scroll should be

Role in this project:

Front-end Developer

Contributions:5 releases, 10 reviews, 140 commits in 10 months

Contributions summary:Franco primarily contributed to the front-end development of the `lenis` repository, which focuses on smooth scroll functionality. Their commits involved adding features related to cross-browser compatibility and platform-specific behavior, such as fallback mechanisms for Windows systems. They also focused on UI updates, including implementing analytics, updating index files, and fixing the project structure to enhance the user experience.

smooth-scrollinganimationscrollscrollingsmooth

darkroomengineering/tempus

Jul 2022 - Jan 2023

Use only one requestAnimationFrame for your whole app

Contributions:16 commits, 1 PR, 18 pushes in 7 months

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