Thomas Tortorini
Paris, Ile-de-France
Summary
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Top SchoolThomas Tortorini is a front-end-focused software engineer with 14 years of experience, blending a deep C/C++ systems background from EPITECH with modern web and UI development. He began coding in high school, rebuilt core Unix tools during his studies, and later specialized in frontend work while studying at Université Laval. Based in Paris, he contributes to prominent open-source projects such as jQuery—improving CSS handling and core utility functions—and maintains creative HTML5 experiments like an open-source DAW on GitHub. Comfortable across low-level performance optimizations and expressive client-side interfaces, he brings a pragmatic, maker’s mindset and a habit of turning playful side projects into useful technical improvements.
13 years of coding experience
EpitechInformation Technology, Information Technology at Université LavalBaccalauréat, Graphism - Desktop Publishing, Baccalauréat, Graphism - Desktop Publishing at Paul Cornu - high school (Lisieux - France)
English, French
Github Skills (5)
css10
javascript10
jquery10
unit-testing9
effects8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jquery/jquery
Feb 2015 - Oct 2015
jQuery JavaScript Library
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 11 PRs, 122 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the jQuery JavaScript library, focusing on enhancing its CSS-related functionalities. Their work included implementing support for relative adjustments in various CSS units, which involved modifying the `adjustCSS` and related files to handle calculations correctly. Additionally, they made the `getStyles` function more readable and optimized code for better performance. They also fixed core functionalities in `each` and `map` functions and removed additional parameters of easings.
javascript-libraryjquery-javascriptjqueryjavascriptjquery-ui
mr21/diff.js
Oct 2014 - Sep 2015
Contributions:3 releases, 24 commits, 7 pushes in 11 months
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