Schabse Laks
Developer at Google
New Jersey, United States
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Top SchoolSchabse Laks is a pragmatic full-stack developer based in New Jersey with 16 years of experience building web and desktop applications using C#, ASP.NET MVC, DevExpress WinForms, and modern JavaScript. He has shipped production systems at startups and large companies—rewriting Unroll.me in Node.js, scaling an async Java IMAP client to 10,000 connections, and contributing frontend work to Google Classroom at Google. An active open-source contributor, Schabse has improved high-profile projects like Google Closure Compiler, Closure Library, ILSpy, and Visual Studio Web Essentials, often focusing on type-safety, tooling, and developer UX. He favors practical, functional-style C# using LINQ and lambdas over formal functional languages, and brings deep debugging and cross-platform build experience (Windows and Linux). As CTO for community and startup projects he combines hands-on coding with product-facing delivery and operational responsibility. He’s also a top StackOverflow contributor, reflecting a commitment to helping other engineers solve tricky problems.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Dropout, Math, Computer Science, Dropout, Math, Computer Science at Yeshiva University
Stackoverflow
877,718reputation
130.9mreached
15,101answers
51questions
jsonp
top-1%
html-entities
top-5%
arraylist
top-1%
oop
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styles
top-5%
while-loop
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
multithreading10
linq10
testing10
winforms10
if-statement10
compiler-construction10
visual-studio10
syntaxerror10
async-await10
floating-point10
while-loop10
lessc10
linq-to-objects10
browser10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
madskristensen/WebEssentials2013
Jul 2013 - Jun 2015
Visual Studio extension
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:506 commits, 2 PRs, 20 comments in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Schabse contributed to a Visual Studio extension, primarily focused on improving the front-end functionality. Their work involved fixing bugs related to selector parsing, and color tagging, and enhancing the Markdown editor. They also focused on various aspects of code optimization and user interface improvements, and contributed to JavaScript code completions, including the addition of auto-completion features for "use strict" and Node.js module.
visual-studio-extensionvisual-studio
google/jsaction
Nov 2014 - Apr 2019
JsAction is a small event delegation library that decouples event binding from the code that can handle the event.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Schabse primarily contributed to the `jsaction` library, a JavaScript event delegation library. Their work focused on refining the behavior of keypress events, especially in relation to accessibility and user interactions with different HTML elements like buttons and checkboxes. This included refactoring code to prevent duplicate events and ensuring proper handling of keyboard inputs, with specific attention to disabled elements and focusability. They also removed unused properties and added a public method for parsing jsaction attributes.
delegationjstreeevent-delegationjavascriptevent-binding
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