Gabe Lalasava
React, NodeJS Developer at Seedess
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorGabe Lalasava is a seasoned full-stack developer and founder with 13 years of experience building resilient web and distributed systems from San Diego. He currently leads React/Node.js development at HardRoad.app and runs Seedess, a P2P in-browser BitTorrent video streaming network that claims up to 70% cost reduction and blockchain-based monetization. Gabe combines product-focused engineering with entrepreneurial experience—having launched multiple email/web platforms (including the open-source igumail and contributions to a widely used php-mime-mail-parser) and earlier founded cloud and web agencies. He mentors developers in modern React and Node patterns and favors offline-first, performance-oriented architectures. Known as a digital nomad, he blends hands-on coding with system design and a knack for turning infrastructure challenges into user-facing products.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
fijian, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
369reputation
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Github Skills (18)
unit-testing10
middleware10
php10
parser8
contract8
parserator8
e-mail7
mailing7
html6
bluebird6
es6-proxy6
yui6
ecmascript6
es20226
css6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
php-mime-mail-parser/php-mime-mail-parser
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
A fully tested email parser for PHP 8.0+ (mailparse extension wrapper).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Gabe focused on enhancing the functionality and structure of the PHP Mime Mail Parser library. They added middleware capabilities, allowing for custom processing steps within the parsing process. The user also addressed code style issues, ensuring adherence to PSR-2 standards, and fixed compatibility issues for older PHP versions (5.4). Furthermore, they improved the testing suite to cover the middleware functionality comprehensively.
mailparse-extensionmailphpemailmailparser
IguMail/socketio-shared-webworker
Feb 2017 - Jul 2021
Socket.io client inside a WebWorker thread
Contributions:1 release, 44 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 5 months
socketwebsocketswebworkerssocket-iosocketio
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