Robert Balfre
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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RockstarRobert Balfre is a seasoned front-end web developer with 14 years of experience designing and building interactive web apps, particularly focused on JavaScript and AngularJS. He brings a broad front-end toolset—HTML5, CSS3, LESS/Sass, Jade, jQuery—paired with backend familiarity in Django and Node.js, enabling effective full-stack collaboration. Having shipped products for startups and design agencies, he balances rapid iteration with polished user experiences and modern web standards. An active open-source contributor, he improved accessibility and keyboard navigation in the popular svelte-select component by simplifying hover logic and fixing multi-select bugs. Based in Sydney, he combines pragmatic engineering with a designer’s eye (Photoshop/Illustrator) to deliver both functional and well-crafted interfaces. Colleagues rely on him for clear front-end architecture and practical solutions that bridge design and implementation.
15 years of coding experience
English
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Github Skills (14)
css10
uid10
javascript10
svelte10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
autocomplete9
angularjs6
ajax6
macos6
google-chrome6
protocols6
django6
facebook6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rob-balfre/svelte-select
Jan 2019 - Jan 2023
Svelte Select. A select component for Svelte
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 1 review, 703 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Robert primarily contributed to the Svelte-Select component, focusing on improving its functionality and user experience. They simplified the logic for handling hover item indexes, removed unused CSS classes to address warnings, and corrected the handling of tab events to ensure proper keyboard navigation. Additionally, the user addressed multi-select-related bugs, including event dispatching, value handling, and component styling.
sveltesveltejstypeaheadautocomplete
rob-balfre/trine
Jun 2015 - Mar 2019
A utility library for modern JavaScript.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
javascripttypescriptmodern-javascriptutility-library
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