Diego Haz
Founder at Ariakit
United Arab Emirates
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Top SchoolDiego Haz is the founder of Ariakit and a front-end-focused software engineer with 11 years of experience building accessible, component-driven web apps. Based in the United Arab Emirates, he combines deep expertise in JavaScript, CSS and React with practical back-end skills in Node.js and Express from his open-source projects. He has contributed to high-profile projects like Automattic’s WordPress Calypso and Gutenberg, helped harden styled-components with tests, and maintains Ariakit—a toolkit for accessible React primitives used by other component libraries. Diego has led front-end architecture work at companies such as OLX and HelloMD, implementing SSR and monorepos while also shipping UX-critical features like auth flows and post widgets. Known for improving accessibility, autocomplete behaviors, and build pipelines, he blends pragmatic engineering with design sensitivity. An owner-developer who still ships code, he often surfaces subtle UX fixes that prevent real-world edge-case breakage.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
Portuguese, English
Stackoverflow
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21answers
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Github Skills (48)
accessibility10
mongoose10
javascript10
expressjs10
apidoc10
ui-components10
testing10
wordpress10
css10
css-in-js10
s610
styled-components10
ui-design10
webpack10
uid10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
diegohaz/generact
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
Generate React components by replicating your own
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 34 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Diego primarily focused on enhancing the `generact` project, which generates React components. Their commits involved updating the codebase, including modifications to the CLI, prompt handling, and utility functions. The user added new features such as supporting .sass extensions and expanding integration tests to cover different project setups like `react-static-boilerplate`. These changes suggest active involvement in improving the functionality and compatibility of the component generation tool.
react-componentreact-componentsreactcreate-react-appcli
diegohaz/constate
Mar 2018 - Apr 2022
React Context + State
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 7 reviews, 262 commits in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Diego primarily focused on improving the codebase's quality and maintainability through consistent formatting and code style improvements. Their contributions included applying Prettier defaults to ensure code consistency across the project. They also added integration tests to verify the functionality of the React components, particularly focusing on local and global state management and effects. Further enhancements involved refactoring code and updating examples to demonstrate the library's features.
react-contextreactreact-statestate-managementconstate
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