Orta Therox
Co-Founder at CocoaPods
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolOrta Therox is a seasoned engineer and founder with 16 years of experience building developer tools, mobile apps, and open-source ecosystems from London. As Co-Founder of Puzzmo and long-time contributor to projects like TypeScript, Jest, CocoaPods and Shiki, he blends product intuition with deep hands-on work across TypeScript, Swift, React Native and tooling. At Microsoft he improved the TypeScript compiler and language service, and his contributions to Danger and CI tooling show a sustained focus on developer experience and automated code quality. A former Design Dictator for CocoaPods and engineer at Artsy, he pairs a designer’s sensibility with robust engineering practice—often improving docs, build pipelines and editor integrations that help teams ship. Not obvious from titles: he repeatedly moves between front-end UX, compiler-level fixes and release automation, making him effective at bridging product, platform and developer workflow gaps.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dunno, a certificate or something, Graphic Design, Dunno, a certificate or something, Graphic Design at Shillington Manchester Design CollegeBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Hull
English, Portuguese, code
Stackoverflow
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cocoapods
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ios
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Github Skills (155)
atom-editor10
visual-studio-code-extension10
website-development10
expressjs10
testing10
css-in-js10
command-line-interface10
language-service10
test-framework10
typescript-definitions10
styled-components10
testflight10
type-definition10
web-analytics10
integrations10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
tsconfig/bases
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Hosts TSConfigs to extend in a TypeScript app, tuned to a particular runtime environment
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:13 reviews, 134 commits, 156 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Orta focused on automating the build, testing, and deployment of TypeScript configurations for different runtime environments. They introduced scripts for creating and deploying npm packages, including versioning, and automated README generation. The user also implemented a system to deploy only changed npm packages and integrated an authentication token for deployment.
typescript
microsoft/TypeScript-Website
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
The Website and web infrastructure for learning TypeScript
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:218 reviews, 2312 commits, 1480 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Orta's contributions primarily focused on updating and enhancing the TypeScript website's content. They were involved in wrapping up and modifying code samples within the documentation, specifically for the "mixins" and "JavaScript" sections. Their work included adding new material, such as the "JS" and "JSDoc" sections to the handbook, and modifying images and layout to provide a better user experience.
typescript
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