Owen
Freelance Software Engineer
Summary
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RockstarOwen is a freelance software engineer with six years of hands-on experience building full-stack and back-end solutions, particularly in developer-focused open-source projects. He contributes to workflow automation tooling like Actionsflow—improving Twitter trigger flexibility and secure key handling—and builds immersive translation browser extensions that handle PDFs, MathJax, and multi-site content extraction. Comfortable across front-end content scripts and server-side integrations, he blends pragmatic engineering with attention to developer workflows and UX for complex text-processing features. As a workflow enthusiast and freelancer, he tends to optimize automation and interoperability while documenting demos and design improvements that make tooling easier for others to adopt.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (21)
userscripts10
javascript10
translation10
css10
chrome-extension10
twitter-api10
magento-extension10
google-chrome-extension10
firefox10
extension-methods10
html10
webextension10
nodejs10
safari-extension10
back-end-development9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
immersive-translate/old-immersive-translate
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
Let's experience immersive web translation, with bilingual simultaneous display and translation of only the important content. Think of the browser's reading mode, but in immersive translation.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:4 releases, 2 reviews, 195 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Owen primarily contributed to the enhancement and expansion of the immersive-translate project. Their work involved implementing new features to support various websites, including Twitter, Reddit, and Bloomberg, by modifying the content script to identify and translate relevant text. They also made improvements to the core functionality, such as handling PDF translations and fixing translation issues. Furthermore, the user added support for several new sites like Nitter and other platforms to improve the project's overall utility.
firefoxbilingualbrowsertranslationjavascript
immersive-translate/immersive-translate
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
沉浸式双语网页翻译扩展 , 支持输入框翻译， 鼠标悬停翻译， PDF, Epub, 字幕文件, TXT 文件翻译 - Immersive Dual Web Page Translation Extension
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:396 releases, 217 commits, 27 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Owen's commits primarily focused on updating and maintaining the codebase for the immersive translate extension. Their contributions included adding support for MathJax and the addition of demo examples. The commits show integration of various translation services, and updates to the documentation files. The user has actively worked on refining the overall design of the project.
i18ntranslationuserscriptnew-releasetranslator
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