Paul Salaets
Senior Web UI Developer at The Walt Disney Company
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolPaul Salaets is a Senior Web UI Developer with 13 years of software experience and a decade focused on front-end JavaScript engineering, currently building interfaces for The Walt Disney Company. He has a track record of both inheriting large, legacy codebases and bootstrapping new projects, while instituting code review workflows, developer tooling, and hiring to scale teams. Comfortable as an individual contributor or leader, he emphasizes pragmatic architecture that fits a project's current needs rather than chasing trends. An active open-source contributor, Paul has improved charting and game-framework debug tooling (notably Chartist.js and Phaser) and strengthened test suites for Node and physics libraries, demonstrating attention to edge cases and reliability. He keeps skills sharp through side projects used as experiment beds for new frameworks and technologies, and holds an MS in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins.
13 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Johns Hopkins UniversityBS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (25)
unit-testing10
javascript10
phaser10
game-dev10
testing10
charts10
chartjs10
charting10
physics10
game-development10
test-automation10
webgl9
gulp9
svg9
nodejs9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
schteppe/p2.js
Jun 2015 - Jan 2016
JavaScript 2D physics library
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the testing of the `p2.js` physics library. Their commits focused on adding and modifying tests within the `test/world/World.js` file. These changes included fixing failing tests, adding tests for edge cases related to body removal, and improving the clarity of failure messages, thereby enhancing the test suite and overall library reliability.
physics-enginephysicsgamedevjavascriptbox2d
node-schedule/node-schedule
Jul 2013 - Jul 2013
A cron-like and not-cron-like job scheduler for Node.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:13 commits in 13 days
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the testing infrastructure of the node-schedule project. Their commits focused on writing tests for various functionalities, including the Job constructor, scheduling with dates, recurrence rules, and the cancel functionality. They also added tests for the .scheduleJob and .cancelJob convenience methods. The contributions directly improved the test coverage and reliability of the project.
schedulerjobjob-schedulernodejscron
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