TED Vortex

@vortex
AI psychologist by day, samurai tooling in general by night. I'm just here to make sure your machines don't develop a personality disorder
Romania
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GitHub Actions, CloudFlare Workers, AWS, Heroku
Node, Docker, Terraform

Nothing fancy nowadays
No bullshit

I'm open to

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beta testing new products,

joining company boards,

advising companies,

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and partnering on side projects.

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Resume

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Apr 2021 - Aug 2023

Lead Maintainer, Open Sauced

Sep 2022 - May 2023

Staff Software Engineer, Open Sauced

Mar 2022 - Aug 2022

Senior Software Engineer, Snyk

Jun 2019 - May 2022

Technology Evangelist, Tiamat Tech

Portfolio

Got my Polywork VIP code today, thanks to the amazing @amanda and the team! 🚀 If you're seeing this message from my custom domain vortex.name, use poly.work/invite/0vortex, and get on board already...

I'm super excited to check out Polywork as one of the first early adopters. Oh and btw IO is by far the king of the AI-Assistants! 🔥 😎 🤖

📋 GitHub Lists

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Made a new stars list comprised of useful plugins for the Obsidian Markdown editor, the open-source Notion alternative. While I am not stressed by the "Notion is watching" meme, having flexible syn...

Made a new stars list comprised of interesting PostgreSQL tools and utilities that we can use in open-sauced repositories built with Supabase, an open-source Firebase alternative! 🚀

Made a new stars list comprised of some useful CI/CD tools that we are investigating using in several open-source repositories or GitHub Actions workflows! 🚀

Made a new stars list comprised of a broad spectrum of interesting tooling decisions for NestJS, a framework for building efficient, scalable Node.js server-side applications which uses progressive...

🌟 Honors

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Excited and honored to get mentioned in an article, Converting to Vite (Part 3), by fellow @open-sauced contributor Matthew Foley! 🍕

Excited and honored to get mentioned in an article, Converting to Vite (Part 2), by fellow @open-sauced contributor Matthew Foley! 🍕 This part is going into detail about the troubles we encountered...

Excited and honored to get mentioned in an article, Converting to Vite (Part 1), by fellow @open-sauced contributor Matthew Foley! 🍕 It's really awesome to see big improvements remembered and talke...

Super excited to get mentioned in a YouTube video, npm check-engine - Issues With Brian, on the Open Sauced official YouTube channel by the one and only Brian Douglas! 🍕 A short video, going over @...

📦 Open Source

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Made a minor contribution to open-sauced/hot, removing Dependabot completely and updating release workflows with working diagram generations and reusable GitHub actions! 🚀🍕

Made a major contribution to open-sauced/goals-template, fixing a long-standing issue for everyone in the open-sauced organization while also updating development workflows

Made a minor contribution to open-sauced/hot, implementing local development for our Supabase backend. It's now using migrations as described in the Supabase CLI tour! 🚀🍕

Made a minor contribution to open-sauced/open-sauced, doing a bunch of small but useful stuff: - removing Dependabot entirely as it was workflow spamming us unable to peer multiple dependencies tog...