Gerome Matilla
Software Engineer
Philippines, Spain
Summary
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RockstarGerome Matilla is a software engineer with eight years of practical experience, blending full-stack development skills with hands‑on customization of desktop tooling. Based in the Philippines with ties to Spain, he brings a global perspective to problem solving and an eye for user-centric interfaces. An active open-source contributor, Gerome notably refactored and extended an AwesomeWM dotfiles repository—improving keybindings, widget behavior, and adding features like weather forecasts and a refined screen recorder. He describes himself playfully as a "Nub programmer," signaling humility and a continuous-learning mindset despite solid contributions to real projects. Gerome excels at turning personal tooling needs into polished, reusable configurations that benefit other power users.
7 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
web-widgets10
lua10
configuration-management10
awesomewm10
widgets10
scripting9
bash9
shell9
script9
sh9
configurations8
system8
operating-system8
system-configuration8
python3
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
eromatiya/the-glorious-dotfiles
Sep 2019 - Nov 2020
A glorified personal dot files
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:588 commits, 69 PRs, 962 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Gerome primarily contributed to the configuration and customization of the AwesomeWM window manager, primarily focusing on the `floppy` configuration, but also making adjustments across the `gnawesome`, `linear`, and `surreal` configurations. Their work involved modifying keybindings, implementing titlebars, and refactoring the system, specifically involving widgets like the brightness and volume OSD, the task list, and the end-session functions. Furthermore, they also added weather forecast functionality and refined the screen recorder widget.
unixdesktop-environmentricingdotfileseww
manilarome/fishblocks
Aug 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:24 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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