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Erwin Kroon

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Dog walker with a 'nice side job writing Ruby at GitHub'. Joined GitHub as a full-stack developer writing React, then switched to the Issues platform team. Has about two years of Ruby experience. Previously worked in Python, Clojure, TypeScript, Kotlin, C, Java, Scala and other languages — describes himself as not having strong opinions about static vs dynamic typing. Speaker of 'Introducing Sorbet into your Ruby codebase' at wroclove.rb 2024, where he shared his team's experience introducing Sorbet into GitHub's 10-year-old Ruby codebase for safer refactoring and performance work (breaking the deployment apart, etc.). Invites people to hit him up on Twitter if Issues isn't working for them.

prior_role
Full-stack developer (React)
current_team
GitHub Issues platform
person Erwin Kroon
authored
Speaker of the talk at wroclove.rb 2024.
person Erwin Kroon
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Python tool
Listed among prior languages used.
person Erwin Kroon
has_skill
TypeScript tool
Listed among prior languages used.
person Erwin Kroon
recommends
Strongly recommends enabling this experimental Sorbet feature.
person Erwin Kroon
recommends
Tapioca tool
Recommends generating RBIs via Tapioca instead of writing inline signatures.
person Erwin Kroon
uses
Ruby tool
Two years of Ruby at GitHub at time of talk.
person Erwin Kroon
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Sorbet tool
Introducing Sorbet to GitHub's 10-year-old Ruby codebase.
person Erwin Kroon
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GitHub company
Engineer on GitHub's Issues platform team; previously full-stack React developer.
role: Issues platform engineer

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