Eddie Jaoude
Developer Advocate
Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom
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Eddie Jaoude is a Developer Advocate and founder with over 15 years of full‑stack engineering and developer relations experience, currently shaping developer experiences at PayPal while running Jaoude Studios. He combines hands‑on delivery across the full project lifecycle with public speaking, documentation, and a docs-as-code approach honed at clients like NatWest, HMRC and Transport for London. A prolific open‑source contributor and GitHub Star of the Year, Eddie has ranked among the world’s top contributors and worked on notable projects such as improving test coverage for the Zend Framework paginator. Passionate about community, diversity, and education, he founded EddieHub to foster inclusive collaboration and has won multiple GitHub awards for teaching and community growth. Based between the UK and a digital‑nomad lifestyle, he blends technical depth in Node/TypeScript, React and testing with a talent for turning complex requirements into well-documented, developer-friendly solutions.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
A'Level, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Computer Science, A'Level, Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Computer Science at SalesianMsc, Advanced Electronic Engineer, Msc, Advanced Electronic Engineer at University of WarwickCharters
English
Stackoverflow
1,698reputation
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65answers
11questions
Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
php10
zend-framework10
test-automation10
exception-handling9
code-coverage8
css6
docker6
spring-mvc6
spring6
symfony6
spring-boot6
java6
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
zendframework/zendframework
May 2011 - Jul 2012
Official Zend Framework repository
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Eddie primarily focused on improving the test suite for the Zend Framework's Paginator component. Their work involved writing and modifying unit tests, specifically targeting boundary conditions and error scenarios within the Paginator. This included testing exception handling and ensuring the Paginator correctly interacts with its adapter and scrolling style components. The commits demonstrate an effort to increase code coverage and validate the robustness of the Paginator implementation.
zend-framework
eddiejaoude/stargate
Feb 2021 - Jun 2021
Discord bot using Stargate Serverless (Cassandra DB)
Contributions:23 releases, 55 reviews, 135 commits in 3 months
cassandradiscord-botserverlessstargatestargate-serverless
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