Jovi De Croock
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
Aalst, East Flanders, Belgium
Summary
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Top SchoolJovi De Croock is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building fast, developer-friendly front-end tooling and GraphQL ecosystems, now at Shopify. He combines deep performance obsession with a pragmatic focus on DX, having improved bundlers, CLIs, HMR and CI for projects like Preact, Snowpack, Microbundle and urql. An active open-source core contributor on Preact and numerous high-profile repos, he’s driven migrations to modern build pipelines and tighter test coverage to make libraries safer to change. At Stellate he bridged research and product as Director of Research Development, and earlier roles at Formidable sharpened his technical leadership and full-stack instincts. Based in Belgium, he’s equally comfortable prototyping WebSocket HMR, trimming bundle size, or adding nuanced API tooling like tokenCount in graphql-js. Colleagues value him for turning performance and testability goals into developer-facing features that reduce long-term maintenance cost.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer, Bachelor Informatica (Software engineering) / Hogere opleiding Software engineer at HOGENTVhti dendermonde
Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
build-time10
babel610
uitest10
hotswap10
javascript10
website-development10
react-hooks10
testing10
hot-module-replacement10
typescript10
nextjs10
buildx10
bundle10
wpgraphql10
webpack10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
urql-graphql/urql
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
The highly customizable and versatile GraphQL client with which you add on features like normalized caching as you grow.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Front-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:652 reviews, 407 commits, 833 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Jovi's contributions primarily revolved around testing and enhancing the codebase. They added and expanded tests for the `Mutation`, `Subscription`, and `Query` components, including tests for specific functionalities like subscriptions and handlers. These changes involved adding new tests to increase code coverage. Furthermore, the user addressed coverage and testing concerns.
graphql-clientnormalizedurqlexchangecomplex-apps
preactjs/wmr
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
👩🚀 The tiny all-in-one development tool for modern web apps.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 170 reviews, 209 commits in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Jovi primarily contributed to the development of the project's frontend by implementing features and fixing bugs. They focused on the build process by making changes to the build tool, and they implemented hot module replacement (HMR) for stylesheets and components. The user also improved the build pipeline to support Typescript and updated dependencies.
rollupreactall-in-onetinyjavascript
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