Huafu Gandon
Associate Founder
Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Summary
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RockstarHuafu Gandon is an experienced software engineer and associate founder with 13 years building insurance, accounting and web platforms, and a long history contributing to high-traffic community sites like CouchSurfing. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he specializes in JavaScript—particularly Ember.js—and has contributed to notable open-source projects ranging from Ember addons to TypeScript/Jest tooling and a Neo4j PHP client. He blends startup grit (co-founding Sovolve and Fidéli) with senior engineering roles at Touristly and others, often improving performance and maintainability in complex codebases and large databases. Now based in the French countryside while working remotely for companies in Southeast Asia and the US, he pairs nomadic lifestyle choices with steady open-source contributions. Pragmatic about design (he jokes he’s “very bad” at it), he prefers roles where the product and team culture genuinely interest him.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
English, French, Spanish, Thai
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Github Skills (33)
babel610
javascript10
coffeescript10
testing10
typescript10
data-serialization10
serialization10
neo4j10
emberjs10
php10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
babel-core10
babeljs10
typescripts10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
kulshekhar/ts-jest
Jul 2018 - Nov 2018
A Jest transformer with source map support that lets you use Jest to test projects written in TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 375 commits, 80 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Huafu primarily contributed to the TypeScript and Jest configuration for testing the project. They focused on improving the caching of the test suite. Additionally, they addressed various code quality issues by removing unused imports and refactoring code to enhance the codebase. The user also made updates to the project's dependencies, upgrading Babel and related packages.
jesttestingjavascriptsource-maptransformer
jadell/neo4jphp
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
PHP wrapper of the Neo4j REST interface
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Huafu primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the `neo4jphp` library, a PHP wrapper for the Neo4j REST interface. They implemented features related to serialization, ensuring that specific properties of nodes and relationships are correctly handled. Furthermore, the user addressed bug fixes related to compatibility with older PHP versions and improved the codebase's overall structure. Documentation was also updated to reflect changes in the library's usage.
apiphpphp-wrapperrestneo4j
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