Jesús Pelay is a software engineer from Carabobo, Venezuela with seven years of experience building full-stack applications and backend systems using TypeScript, Python (Flask) and Java. He currently contributes to Hedy, an educational gradual programming language for children, where he has strengthened parser robustness, grammar handling and multilingual site infrastructure while also working at AlgoEdge. His background spans enterprise application development, LMS content design and English instruction, giving him a practical grasp of user-facing product needs and technical implementation. Known on GitHub for backend work that improves language parsing edge cases and error messages, he combines attention to detail with a curiosity for teaching technology—he also admits to liking cats.
7 years of coding experience
Computación, Computational Science, Computación, Computational Science at Universidad de Carabobo
Hedy is a gradual programming language to teach children programming. Gradual languages use different language levels, where each level adds new concepts and syntactic complexity. At the end of the Hedy level sequence, kids master a subset of syntactically valid Python.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:506 reviews, 82 commits, 224 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jesús primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Hedy project. Their work involved implementing features related to language defaults for adventures, fixing errors in the Hedy parser, and modifying the grammar files. These modifications address issues related to code parsing, including those involving spaces and newline characters, and improving the overall robustness and functionality of the gradual programming language. They also added error messages.
Hedy is a gradual programming language to teach children programming. Gradual languages use different language levels, where each level adds new concepts and syntactic complexity. At the end of the Hedy level sequence, kids master a subset of syntactically valid Python.
Contributions:2 PRs, 577 pushes, 108 branches in 3 years 2 months
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Jesús Pelay - Ingeniero De Software at Hedy Organization