George Mandis
Recurser at Recurse Center
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGeorge Mandis is a seasoned full-stack software engineer and founder with 15 years building products, leading teams, and running a web consultancy. He combines hands-on expertise in JavaScript, Node.js, Python, PHP and WordPress with practical DevOps and API design, and has steered engineering organizations from senior IC to director-level roles. A long-time mentor and conference speaker (former Google Developer Expert), he enjoys simplifying systems and helping teams adopt AI without adding complexity. He maintains fun but useful open-source work—like konami-js, an easter-egg library he’s maintained since 2009—showing a blend of craftsmanship and playful curiosity. Based in New York and educated at Portland State University, he now runs Less Software while participating in the Recurse Center, balancing consulting, writing, and hands-on engineering.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Portland State University
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
touch-event10
audio6
html6
css6
flash6
svg6
jquery6
streaming6
mp36
image6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
georgemandis/konami-js
Apr 2011 - Nov 2022
Adding the Konami Code easter egg to your projects since 2009! Compatible with gestures on smartphones and tablets as well. Compatible with all front-end frameworks and vanilla JavaScript
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1 review, 144 commits in 11 years 9 months
Contributions summary:George primarily focused on the development and maintenance of the Konami code easter egg functionality. Their contributions included fixing bugs, refactoring touch event handlers, updating the version number, and changing the licensing. They also added semicolons to the code for better compatibility with minifiers and made minor code adjustments.
konami-codejavascripteggkonamigestures
snaptortoise/wordpress-quick-install
Jan 2012 - Aug 2018
A shell script for quickly installing the latest version of WordPress + useful plugins into the current directory. A nice way to start any new WP project.
Contributions:24 commits, 2 PRs, 1 push in 6 years 7 months
a-shellscriptinstallingwordpressinstaller
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