Shay Cojocaru
Frontend Developer at Microsoft
Israel
Summary
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SeniorShay Cojocaru is a Frontend Developer based in Israel with 11 years of hands-on experience building performant, accessible web interfaces. A self-taught engineer passionate about web performance and accessibility, Shay focuses on practical UI improvements that enhance usability and maintainability. On GitHub they’ve contributed to cboard-org/cboard, an AAC system, implementing visual and layout fixes, a filter bar, and material-ui upgrades that improved the browser-based text-to-speech user experience. Comfortable working directly in UI codebases, Shay has a track record of diagnosing styling and component issues and shipping focused front-end fixes. Colleagues benefit from their pragmatic approach to design-for-accessibility and performance-minded optimizations. Notably, their open-source work shows a willingness to improve assistive-technology projects rather than just typical consumer sites.
11 years of coding experience
English, Hebrew
Stackoverflow
73reputation
3kreached
1answer
3questions
Github Skills (13)
javascript10
material-ui10
react10
ui-design8
accessibility7
safari6
html6
css6
html5-canvas6
google-chrome6
mobile-safari6
webkit6
regex6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cboard-org/cboard
Aug 2017 - Jan 2023
Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system with text-to-speech for the browser
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 567 commits, 450 PRs in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Shay primarily focused on front-end development tasks within the project. They made several commits related to the UI, including removing and fixing code related to `react-grid-layout`, fixing the size of icons, and implementing improvements in the Board component's visuals. Furthermore, the user addressed styling issues by bumping and fixing material-ui, with the fixes related to aspects of the user interface such as FullScreenDialog, output. The user also added a new filter bar for the project.
cerebral-palsyspeech-recognitiondisabilitiesassistive-technologyaccessibility
shayc/communication-board
Jun 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:186 pushes, 6 branches in 1 month
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