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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

41 posts
  1. Advent of TypeScript 2023 TypeScript
  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. Take decisions for the junior developer you haven’t hired yet Leadership Engineering
  17. How to deprecate a component Engineering React
  18. Testing Library Cheatsheet Testing
  19. Branded types in TypeScript TypeScript
  20. Make your tests fail on network requests with MSW Testing
  21. Mock Next.js Router for Testing Testing React Next.js
  22. How to Style Text in HTML CSS
  23. The Five Primary UX States UX
  24. FlagsAttribute in TypeScript TypeScript
  25. Creating an Array Containing Values 1 to N in JavaScript JavaScript
  26. Effective Query Functions for React Query with Zod React TypeScript
  27. My Approach When It Comes to Testing Testing
  28. Five Things You (Probably) Didn't Know About Testing Library Testing React
  29. How to Test Asynchronous Methods with React Testing Library Testing React
  30. Testing a Custom Select with React Testing Library Testing React
  31. Mocking Context with React Testing Library Testing React
  32. Fetching Asynchronous Data with React Hooks React
  33. Making Sense of useEffect React
  34. How to Start with Open Source Open Source
  35. Optimizing JavaScript with Lazy Evaluation and Memoization JavaScript Performance
  36. CSS Modules & React React CSS
  37. JavaScript Function Composition JavaScript
  38. Mind the Gap when upgrading to HTTP/2 Web Performance
  39. ES6 Tail Call Optimization JavaScript
  40. An Introduction to Hedge Funds for Developers Finance
  41. Web apps: the best is yet to come Web