Jason Beggs
Staff Software Engineer at Laravel
Hartwell, Georgia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJason Beggs is a Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience building beautiful, production-ready web applications using Laravel, Tailwind, Livewire, and modern JavaScript frameworks. Now on the Laravel Cloud team, he focuses on frontend fidelity—bridging design, UX, and maintainable frontend code for a managed hosting platform. He’s an active open-source contributor, improving UI components and accessibility in projects like Alpine.js and contributing backend fixes and helpers to the Laravel framework itself. As the founder of roasted.dev, he combines freelance product work for notable clients with platform-scale engineering, bringing both startup agility and attention to polish. Based in Hartwell, Georgia, he pairs a strong academic foundation in computer science with a practical track record of shipping UI-focused features and tests that improve developer and end-user experience.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science, 3.97 GPA, Associate of Science (A.S.), Computer Science, 3.97 GPA at Athens Technical College
English
Github Skills (32)
accessibility10
application-framework10
javascript10
cypress10
accessibilityservice10
ui-components10
laravel-mix10
testing10
css10
app-framework10
responsive-design10
template-engine10
livewire10
laravel10
phpunit10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
livewire/docs
Oct 2020 - Apr 2022
Livewire documentation
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 19 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the documentation of the Livewire framework, adding examples and explanations for testing methods and other features. They made changes to the CSS files, likely to enhance the user interface's responsiveness and add support for the site's callouts. Moreover, they worked on the Livewire component files and updated the framework's dependencies, which involved code refactoring and upgrades to the existing codebase.
laravellivewire
alpinejs/alpine
Oct 2022 - Dec 2022
A rugged, minimal framework for composing JavaScript behavior in your markup.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 23 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
Contributions summary:Jason primarily contributed to the UI components of the Alpine.js framework. Their commits focus on implementing and refining UI elements like switches, disclosures, radio groups, menus, and listboxes. The code changes involve adding accessibility attributes, managing internal states, and integrating functionality, such as keyboard navigation and x-model integration. This includes writing tests to ensure proper behavior and implementing various features within the user interface.
pjaxminimal-frameworkjavascriptmarkupknockoutjs
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