Hernán Sartorio
Founder at Pagy
Uruguay
Summary
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Top SchoolHernán Sartorio is a founder and full-stack engineer from Uruguay with 12 years of experience building consumer and enterprise web products. He has founded multiple ventures including Pagy and Bloggi, and previously led front-end work at Hopin and Theorem, shipping interfaces for clients like Apple and AT&T. His strengths lie in crafting polished, touch-friendly UIs and reusable components—evident in open-source projects like react-nice-dates and the lightweight jquery-nice-select plugin where he added mobile optimizations, accessibility improvements and analytics hooks. Comfortable moving between design, front-end engineering and back-end tasks, he often owns product design, branding and implementation end-to-end. Known for pragmatic refactors and performance-minded UI work, he blends entrepreneurial curiosity with hands-on delivery.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Licenciatura en Sistemas, Licenciatura en Sistemas at Universidad ORT Uruguay
Spanish, English
Github Skills (15)
datepicker10
component-development10
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
daterangepicker10
react10
date-fns10
optimization9
optimisation9
html9
responsive-design9
gulp8
accessibility7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
hernansartorio/jquery-nice-select
Sep 2015 - Oct 2020
A lightweight jQuery plugin that replaces native select elements with customizable dropdowns.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 26 commits, 4 PRs in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Hernán primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the jQuery plugin, jquery-nice-select. Their work included updating links in the `index.html` file, optimizing the plugin for mobile devices, tweaking the button style, and adding Google Analytics and Clicky code for tracking. Further contributions involved refactoring code, adding support for disabled options, improving IE support, and incorporating Gulp.
dropdownsjqueryelementsjavascriptcustomizable
hernansartorio/react-nice-dates
Dec 2019 - Jul 2021
A responsive, touch-friendly, and modular date picker library for React.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 4 reviews, 101 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Hernán primarily focused on developing and refactoring components within a React date picker library. They added core components such as `CalendarGrid`, `CalendarNavigation`, and `CalendarDay`, implementing the fundamental structure and navigation elements. Subsequent commits added touch-friendly dragging interactions, refactored code for improved responsiveness, and integrated date and date range picker functionalities. The contributions demonstrate a strong focus on building a user-friendly and feature-rich date picker.
date-pickerdatepickerdate-fnsreactcalendar
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