Raphael Eidus
Sr Principal Software Engineer at Yahoo Finance
Palm Springs, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaphael Eidus is a Sr. Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience leading product-focused engineering teams and shipping performant, accessible web experiences. He blends deep front-end craftsmanship in JavaScript, React and performance optimization with systems architecture and product design, having moved from hands-on roles to senior management at companies like The Huffington Post, Maven Clinic, and Updater before joining Yahoo Finance. Raphael is an advocate for cross-browser compatibility and efficient resource management—his open-source contributions include UX fixes and lazy-loading improvements to well-known front-end libraries. Based in Palm Springs, he pairs technical leadership with a UX-first mentality, often translating design and accessibility needs into elegant engineering solutions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science Infomation Technology and Web Science, Bachelors of Science Infomation Technology and Web Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
front-end-development10
jquery10
performance-optimization10
cross-browser9
browser-support9
html9
backward-compatibility9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
zurb/twentytwenty
May 2017 - Nov 2018
jQuery Plugin to Compare Images
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 20 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the "twentytwenty" jQuery plugin. Their contributions included implementing support for custom labels, fixing touchmove interactions, addressing compatibility issues on devices lacking the `Symbol` function, and adding a polyfill for `createEvent`. They also highlighted images in Internet Explorer by modifying CSS, suggesting a focus on cross-browser compatibility.
javascriptcompare-imagesjqueryjquery-plugin
toddmotto/echo
Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
Lazy-loading images with data-* attributes
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 1 comment in 2 months
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the lazy-loading image library. Their contributions included adding the capability to unload images that scroll out of view, improving the library's resource management. They also added support for independently defining top and bottom offsets and introduced a callback mechanism. These changes improved the library's efficiency and flexibility.
loading-imageslazy-loadingimagedata-attributes
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