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Orta Therox Speaker's Bio

Bios

There are a few options depending on your target audience:

General Tech / OSS scale focused

Orta is a developer/designer working in games on something secret, prior to that he worked on the TypeScript compiler team at Microsoft. He's worked on very large scale open source projects across the Ruby, iOS and Node ecosystems for the last decade, ranging from CocoaPods to Danger. He's such an active Open Source contributor that GitHub follows him on twitter.

iOS Eco-system Focused

Orta is a developer/designer who works on games. Prior to that he worked on the TypeScript compiler team at Microsoft after a decade or so building native macOS and iOS apps. You've likely used his work on CocoaPods, and hopefully you're in a team using Danger. He's contributed to almost every major iOS OSS infrastructure project in the pre-Swift days and has been focusing on JavaScript for the last few years.

JS Eco-system Focused

Orta is an developer/designer who works on web-powered games. Prior to that he worked on the TypeScript team in Microsoft. He has a decade of open source contributions ranging across many eco-systems, helps maintain a dependency manager for iOS, built Danger in many languages, contributes to working groups like GraphQL and in core teams like Jest, Svelte and React Native. You've probably seen his open source design work in the React/TypeScript ecosystem.

Links

• Homepage: https://orta.io
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/orta
• GitHub: https://github.com/orta

Location

Dublin, Ireland

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