Giovanni Hu
Senior Front End Developer at IBV
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolGiovanni Hu is a Senior Front End Developer based in Zurich with 11 years of experience building collaborative, production-grade web interfaces using React, TypeScript and canvas technologies. He currently architects the front-end of a realtime whiteboard product (Collaboard) combining Fabric.js canvas work with WebRTC/WebSockets and has contributed type-safety and event-handling improvements back to the popular fabric.js project. A veteran trainer and conference speaker, he regularly teaches advanced React, TypeScript and PWA topics and has distilled those ideas into talks on React design and IndexedDB. Giovanni’s background spans enterprise UI libraries, accessibility, and embedded touch UIs, and he brings a pragmatic focus on maintainability—favoring strong typing, modular architectures and automated documentation—to complex front-end systems.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Informatics, Master's degree, Informatics at Università degli Studi di Padova
Italian, English, cinese (tradizionale)
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unit-testing
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angular
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Github Skills (19)
unit-testing10
javascript10
event-handling10
typescript10
type-definition10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
fabric10
jasmine10
typescripts10
fabricjs10
angular9
firebase6
flexbox6
nodejs6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
fabricjs/fabric.js
Sep 2021 - Dec 2025
Javascript Canvas Library, SVG-to-Canvas (& canvas-to-SVG) Parser
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:79 reviews, 29 PRs, 206 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Giovanni primarily contributed to the Fabric.js library by implementing and modifying event types, particularly those related to TypeScript definitions for canvas and object events. They addressed merge conflicts and updated documentation, ensuring correct typing within the codebase. Furthermore, the user refactored code to replace `BaseFabricObject` with `FabricObject`, and modified event names. These contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the type safety, maintainability, and event handling of the library's core functionalities.
javascriptparsersvg
jiayihu/ygo
Jun 2018 - Nov 2018
Contributions:74 commits, 22 pushes in 4 months
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