Shahar Or
San Kamphaeng, Thailand
Summary
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RockstarShahar Or is a seasoned software engineer with 26 years of experience who thrives in collaborative, early-morning coding environments and prefers mob or pair programming. He is passionate about Rust, robotics/automotive/aviation/space domains, and contributing to open source, often focusing on tooling and developer experience. As author of the Full Time Nix podcast and The Molybdenum Software Show, he combines deep technical practice with community-facing education. His open-source contributions include meaningful front-end and tooling improvements to projects like snabbdom and WYMeditor, where he modernized types, tests, and documentation. Based in San Kamphaeng, Thailand, he seeks roles in teal organizations that value autonomy and kindness. An underrated strength is his knack for turning documentation and build workflows into durable developer-facing assets that scale team productivity.
26 years of coding experience
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
2,883reputation
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34answers
26questions
coffeescript
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
virtual-dom10
typescript10
github-pages10
dom10
jekyll10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
documentation10
sna10
testing9
coffeescript9
node-module9
nodejs9
html8
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
wymeditor/wymeditor
Mar 2014 - Jan 2016
Pure js cross-browser WYSIWYM editor with a focus on the clean separation of content and styling.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 1588 commits, 111 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Shahar primarily focused on enhancing the WYMeditor website, contributing significantly to documentation and website development. Their work included rewriting website documentation, fixing typos, and updating the content to reflect recent changes in the project. They also managed the build and publishing of the website via GitHub Pages, and updated the README.rst file, which is the source of content for the documentation's index.
wysiwyg-editorseparationpure-jsbrowserjavascript
snabbdom/snabbdom
Oct 2016 - Feb 2021
A virtual DOM library with focus on simplicity, modularity, powerful features and performance.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 reviews, 150 commits, 400 PRs in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Shahar focused on improving the virtual DOM library, snabbdom, by addressing VNode property typing and implementing changes to the codebase. They improved existing test coverage, and converted existing tests to TypeScript. Their work also included improvements to the VNodeData types, and improving the build process.
virtualdomvirtual-domvirtual-dom-librarymodularityjavascript
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