Giorgio Polvara
Staff Engineer at Perk
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolGiorgio Polvara is a Staff Engineer based in Barcelona with ~14 years of professional experience and nearly 20 years coding, specializing in frontend architecture, scalability, and developer experience. He built the frontend foundations at TravelPerk when it was a 15-person startup—systems that still power the company as a unicorn—and later led a large migration to microfrontends to improve DX and delivery speed. A proven leader and mentor, he has managed and grown teams, driven hiring improvements, and champions practical company values in engineering. Giorgio is also the original creator and core contributor to testing-library/user-event, a widely adopted npm package used to simulate user interactions in tests. He consistently favors pragmatic, battle-tested technology choices and automated quality standards to reduce complexity and keep teams productive. Outside work he volunteers teaching coding to refugees, reflecting a long-standing commitment to developer education and inclusion.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, Informatic Specialization, High School Diploma, Informatic Specialization at I.T.I.S. S.Ten.Vasc. A. BadoniBachelor's degree, Informatics, Bachelor's degree, Informatics at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Catalan, English, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
25,356reputation
3.0mreached
105answers
20questions
material-ui
top-5%
anchor
top-1%
typescript
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testing
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unit-testing
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jestjs
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Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
javascript10
anchor10
testing10
href10
ui-design10
react-testing-library10
react-context10
dom10
jestjs10
react10
typescript9
material-ui9
ecmascript9
react-router9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
testing-library/user-event
Sep 2018 - Apr 2020
🐕 Simulate user events
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:65 releases, 287 commits, 209 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Giorgio primarily contributed to the `user-event` library, focusing on simulating user interactions within a testing environment. Their work included implementing the `userEvent.click()` method, expanding its functionality to support various HTML elements such as `<label>`, `textarea`, and checkboxes. They also added the `userEvent.type()` method for simulating text input and added an option for typing all at once.
eventstestingjavascriptfrontendtypescript
travelperk/styleguide
Jun 2017 - Dec 2018
Contributions:18 PRs, 54 pushes, 18 branches in 1 year 6 months
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