Helmy Giacoman
Senior Software Engineer at Sourcefabric z.ú.
Prague, Prague, Czechia
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Top SchoolHelmy Giacoman is a Senior Software Engineer based in Prague with 16 years of experience and a 12+ year track record of delivering production software across web, publishing and live-event platforms. He leads development for Sourcefabric’s Live Blog and has driven major features and roadmaps while handling client technical needs, blending hands-on coding with team leadership. His background includes founding and scaling software consultancies, rebuilding UIs and payment/financial systems for SaaS at Power Diary, and full-stack contributions to the open-source Booktype publishing platform. Comfortable in remote and distributed teams, he excels at pragmatic problem solving and mentoring engineers to deliver polished user experiences across front-end and back-end stacks. Notably, his open-source work on Booktype shows a focus on improving editorial UX and consolidating core functionality, reflecting both product sensibility and deep codebase familiarity.
16 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ingeniería en Computación, Ingeniería en Computación at Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
booktype/Booktype
Apr 2014 - Jun 2019
Booktype is a free, open source platform that produces beautiful, engaging books formatted for print, Amazon, iBooks and almost any ereader within minutes.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 415 commits in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Helmy's commits focus on implementing and refining features within the "Booktype" platform. They implemented a new book info page, created a new draft view page, and modified existing templates, suggesting involvement in both front-end and back-end development. They also contributed to the project's user interface (UI) through fixes in the TOC panel, and the inclusion of extra information within the TOC, indicating a focus on improving the user experience and presentation of content. Furthermore, they also moved the static attachment view to the new core app, highlighting the developer's knowledge on the underlying code base.
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eos87/trocaire
May 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:77 commits in 7 months
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