Val Enfys
Youth Ambassador at Unidentified Systems
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolVal Enfys is a software engineer with over a decade of hands-on experience building user-focused web and mobile apps using JavaScript and TypeScript, with deep frontend expertise in React and React Native. They’ve shipped features at companies ranging from the Financial Times and Cleo to the Gatsby core team, where they contributed notable fixes and improvements to the widely used gatsbyjs/gatsby framework and its offline plugin. Comfortable across the stack, Val pairs rapid self-taught learning with a collaborative mindset—improving developer tooling, documentation, and accessibility while partnering closely with designers and data teams. Based in London, they also bring a creative edge as a DJ, photographer, and youth ambassador, which helps them connect product work to real-world communities and emerging audiences.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
A-Levels, Computer Science/Mathematics/Spanish, A* (Maths), A (Computer Science), B (Further Maths), C (Spanish), A-Levels, Computer Science/Mathematics/Spanish, A* (Maths), A (Computer Science), B (Further Maths), C (Spanish) at The 6th Form College FarnboroughShort Course, Fashion Photography, Short Course, Fashion Photography at University of the Arts London
English, Spanish, Welsh
Github Skills (14)
service-worker10
caching10
javascript10
gatsby10
react10
webapp9
web-application9
cypress9
web-development9
babeljs8
babel68
babel-core8
webpack8
webpacker8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
gatsbyjs/gatsby
Aug 2018 - Nov 2019
The best React-based framework with performance, scalability and security built in.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits, 72 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Val primarily contributed to the `gatsbyjs/gatsby` repository, a React-based framework, by fixing various issues related to the offline support and caching mechanisms provided by the `gatsby-plugin-offline`. Their work involved modifying multiple files within the plugin and core Gatsby code, implementing features and fixing bugs related to service worker caching strategies and the handling of 404 pages. Furthermore, the user updated Cypress tests, upgraded Babel, and made improvements to core Gatsby features.
gatsbyreactweb-appfastestcompiler
vtenfys/notion-linux
Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
Native Notion packages for Linux
Contributions:15 releases, 1 review, 247 commits in 1 year 8 months
notionmanjarolinuxhydrogenchroot
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