Giorgio Polvara

Giorgio Polvara

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ABOUT ME
Web Developer with more than ten years of experience
Web Developer with more than ten years of experience

I'm a Web Developer with more than ten years of experience and a passion for the frontend. I'm currently located in Barcelona, Spain, but I'm happy to take on a new remote challenge. Through the years, I was lucky enough to work with people from all over the world, try different working styles, and deploy my code to hundreds of different users.

I've learned and used several technologies from databases to CSS frameworks and all that there's in between. I'm always eager to learn the next thing.

These days my preference is for the fronted, particularly for React and TypeScript.

I'm an open-source contributor, especially in the React-Testing-Library community, where I created user-event, a package that now has more than one million downloads per week.

I'm always eager to take on new projects as I see it as a great way to improve myself by learning how different industries work.

In my spare time, I volunteer as a coding teacher, a task I genuinely enjoy. During my career, I've been complimented by different people for my patience and teaching skills.

Italian, English
Madrid (+02:00)
Joined December 2015
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EMPLOYMENTS
Engineering Manager
TravelPerk
2019-12-01-2020-05-01
As an Engineering Manager, my main goal was to help my reports with their professional growth and career advancement while making sure I ...
As an Engineering Manager, my main goal was to help my reports with their professional growth and career advancement while making sure I eliminated any distractions that would prevent them from performing their best.
TypeScript
React
Jest
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TypeScript
React
Jest
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Squad Leader
Travelperk
2019-04-01-2020-05-01
As a Squad Leader, I guided my team in finding the best technical solution to achieve our OKRs. At the same time, I communicated with the...
As a Squad Leader, I guided my team in finding the best technical solution to achieve our OKRs. At the same time, I communicated with the Product Owner, management, and other Squad Leaders to make sure everyone was aligned. During this period, I also started interviewing candidates for various technical positions.
TypeScript
React
Jest
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TypeScript
React
Jest
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Senior Software Engineer
TravelPerk
2016-08-01-2020-05-01
I joined TravelPerk when there were only 15 employees and left when there were almost 500. During my time at TravelPerk, my role changed ...
I joined TravelPerk when there were only 15 employees and left when there were almost 500. During my time at TravelPerk, my role changed and grew with the company. I was able to set up and coordinate the whole frontend infrastructure, making it ready to scale to serve hundreds of users per day. I documented the best practices and shared them with the rest of the team even by organizing internal workshops and overseeing the onboarding of new team members. An area where I was able to have a significant impact was the automated tests. I wrote several custom ESLint rules that helped keep the code up to our standards. I became a core contributor to React-Testing-Library and wrote a companion tool that now has more than one million weekly downloads.
TypeScript
React
Jest
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TypeScript
React
Jest
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