Nicolás Bevacqua
Head, UI UX Engineering at Pony Foo
Vicente López, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Summary
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RockstarNicolás Bevacqua is a Head of UI/UX Engineering with 14 years of experience leading product-focused frontend teams at high-growth companies, currently scaling Ramp’s design and engineering practice. He combines hands-on JavaScript craftsmanship—authoring and contributing to open-source libraries like fuzzysearch, horsey, woofmark and the Elastic UI framework—with proven leadership from Elastic’s pre-IPO engineering. A published author and longtime speaker (Pony Foo), he translates deep knowledge of modern JavaScript and modular architecture into pragmatic, performant UI systems. Nicolás has a track record of shipping polished UI components and developer-facing libraries while improving build processes and documentation. He’s equally comfortable optimizing search and selection algorithms as he is mentoring teams and driving cross-functional product initiatives. Based in Vicente López, Argentina, he blends global consulting and conference experience with startup-scale execution.
14 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (42)
algorithm10
json10
algorithms10
fuzzy-search10
javascript10
event-handling10
ui-components10
css-in-js10
css10
autocomplete10
s610
data-structure10
gruntjs10
front-end-development10
html10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
bevacqua/fuzzysearch
Mar 2015 - May 2016
:crystal_ball: Tiny and blazing-fast fuzzy search in JavaScript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicolás focused on optimizing the core fuzzy search functionality. Their contributions involved refactoring the code, improving the efficiency of the search algorithm, and refining circuit breakers for performance. The user also made changes to variable names for enhanced readability and maintainability. They addressed several aspects of the search algorithm's performance and clarity.
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bevacqua/woofmark
Mar 2015 - Feb 2019
:dog2: Barking up the DOM tree. A modular, progressive, and beautiful Markdown and HTML editor
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:138 commits, 12 PRs, 83 pushes in 3 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Nicolás primarily contributed to the front-end of the woofmark editor, fixing bugs related to text selection and HTML parsing, and adding features such as image and attachment support. They addressed various issues in the `getSurface.js` file related to selection handling and implemented a synthetic selection fallback. Additionally, the user made improvements to the HTML parsing logic within `wrapping.js` for more robust HTML rendering.
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