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Staff Engineer @ Perk

Giorgio Polvara

I'm interested in designing and scaling socio-technical architectures, improving developer experience, and partnering with leadership on technical strategy that still pays off years later. I set up the frontend platform at Perk when it was a 15-person startup; those choices still power the product today. I also created @testing-library/user-event, now used by millions of developers.

Giorgio Polvara

Writing

42 posts
  1. The Persistence of Theory: Reevaluating Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" in the Generative AI Era AI Engineering
  2. The Phoenix Architecture: Regenerative Software Design in the Age of Generative AI AI Architecture
  3. The Cutting Edge of Socio-Technical Architecture: Transforming Systems, Teams, and Flow in the AI Era Architecture AI Leadership
  4. The Architecture of Aligned Incentives: Engineering Productivity, AI Leverage, and the Future of Value Sharing AI Leadership Engineering
  5. The Paradox of Technological Deflation: Historical Cost Trajectories and the Economic Scaling of Generative Artificial Intelligence AI Economics
  6. Strategic Transition from Asynchronous Code Review to Synchronous Pair Programming: An Analytical Framework for Engineering Leadership Leadership Engineering
  7. Learning With AI Without Losing the Ability to Think AI Education
  8. When AI Gets TypeScript Wrong AI TypeScript
  9. What Similarweb’s Data Tells Us About the AI Market Today AI
  10. The downfall of a software company Engineering Leadership
  11. Null Components Should be Hooks React
  12. My ChatGPT Configuration AI Productivity
  13. A JS trick I stopped using JavaScript
  14. On the switch true pattern JavaScript
  15. When introducing pain is useful Leadership Engineering
  16. Advent of TypeScript 2023 TypeScript
  17. Take decisions for the junior developer you haven’t hired yet Leadership Engineering
  18. How to deprecate a component Engineering React
  19. Testing Library Cheatsheet Testing
  20. Branded types in TypeScript TypeScript
  21. Make your tests fail on network requests with MSW Testing
  22. Mock Next.js Router for Testing Testing React Next.js
  23. How to Style Text in HTML CSS
  24. The Five Primary UX States UX
  25. FlagsAttribute in TypeScript TypeScript
  26. Creating an Array Containing Values 1 to N in JavaScript JavaScript
  27. Effective Query Functions for React Query with Zod React TypeScript
  28. My Approach When It Comes to Testing Testing
  29. Five Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Testing Library Testing React
  30. How to Test Asynchronous Methods with React Testing Library Testing React
  31. Testing a Custom Select with React Testing Library Testing React
  32. Mocking Context with React Testing Library Testing React
  33. Fetching Asynchronous Data with React Hooks React
  34. Making Sense of useEffect React
  35. How to Start with Open Source Open Source
  36. Optimizing JavaScript with Lazy Evaluation and Memoization JavaScript Performance
  37. CSS Modules & React React CSS
  38. JavaScript Function Composition JavaScript
  39. Mind the Gap when upgrading to HTTP/2 Web Performance
  40. ES6 Tail Call Optimization JavaScript
  41. An Introduction to Hedge Funds for Developers Finance
  42. Web apps: the best is yet to come Web