Hallo! 👋 Ik ben Joey Figaro

I'm a Product Engineer, Tinkerer, and Co-Founder

For the last 10 years, I've worked with diverse teams to solve problems for companies like Ford, Tempur Pedic, iHome, Alchemy, Measure, Mobelux, The Infatuation, Seasonal Roots, Simple Thread and more.

I'm currently serving as the Director/Lead Product Engineer at Rogue Agency.

If you're interested in working together or would like to learn more about me or what I'm working on, feel free to reach out.

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Notable Projects & Contributions

TSUP library template my reusable template for TS libraries
Octohide browser extension for hiding reusable workflows in GitHub repositories
AlchemyRPG VTT
The Infatuation one of the first teams to build an embedded React application within a larger React/Django application
Conflict-Scanner Action supports configurable file patterns for scanning subsets of changed files for conflict markers
useMutationRedirect a React hook for post-mutate navigation side-effects
Glacier (Theme) my first (flat) editor color scheme that used higher-saturation colors than other flat options at the time
Actix Examples my first contribution to the Rust ecosystem

My Setup

🧑🏻‍💻 Current Side Projects

Octohide browser extension for hiding reusable workflows in GitHub repositories COMPLETED
- ✅ [TypeScript, WXT] boilerplate finalized
- ✅ [CI] automated tests and releases
- 💪🏻 [CD] automated store deployment(s)
Opensauce multi-platform feed for (F)OSS showcasing IN-PROGRESS
- ✅ [Typescript, Apify] actors for finding content
- ✅ [Express] REST API for responding to content discovery results
- ✅ [D1+R2/Queues] Cloudflare infrastructure for powering internal administration tooling and automated social posting
- ✅ [Worker] History worker for scheduled ingestion draining and coordination
- ✅ [Worker] Instagram responder worker for watching published posts for keywords and sending DMs
- ✅ [Next.js, Cloudflare] Internal administration dashboard for generating slide images and editing content
Gamelens (a native CV app for identifying games on your TV) IN-PROGRESS
- ✅ [Typescript, Apify] scheduled actors run daily to find public cover art for video games
- ✅ [Apify, Create ML] results from actor runs are used to train a model (not automated yet)
- ✅ [Rust, Actix] platform API serves up JSON for discovered games
- ⭕️ [Swift] iOS app
Blackhole.email (a tongue-in-cheek access gate for your inboxes) IN-PROGRESS
- ✅ Architecture
- 💪🏻 ZKP research
- ⭕️ [Typescript, React] Browser extension/local client
- ⭕️ [Typescript] Server
@joeyfigaro/astro-github (custom loader for GH data in Astro content collections) PAUSED
- 💪🏻 [Typescript, Astro] sources
- ⭕️ [MDX/Markdown] Examples
- ⭕️ v1 release
Dependafest (GH manifest scanning for improved packages UX) IN-PROGRESS
- ✅ [React/Tailwind] chrome extension foundation
- 💪🏻 [Typescript] sources
- 💪🏻 [Regex] pattern repository for manifests and distros
- ⭕️ v1 release