Machisté N. Quintana

(Mah-chee-steh Keen-tah-nah)

👋🏽 I'm a software engineer who specializes in cross-platform desktop apps that combine web and native in unholy matrimony. (Also web apps that feel like bespoke native apps.)

Working at

Splice

Previously at

Slack
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Yale University
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Interop’s Labyrinth: Sharing Code Between Web & Electron Apps

One of Electron’s most compelling draws is the ability to not only build a desktop app with web technologies, but also to build around a pre-existing web app as a foundation. However, here there be dragons - performance hiccups, security vulnerabilities, and maintainability woes lurk in the shadows, waiting for you to unwittingly take a wrong turn.

My Work

I used to work on the cross-platform Slack desktop app, I have also helped maintain Atom, GitHub's hackable text editor, and very occasionally contributed to Electron, the framework for building cross-platform apps with web technologies.

Featured

Article

Interop’s Labyrinth: Sharing Code Between Web & Electron Apps

One of Electron’s most compelling draws is the ability to not only build a desktop app with web technologies, but also to build around a pre-existing web app as a foundation. However, here there be dragons - performance hiccups, security vulnerabilities, and maintainability woes lurk in the shadows, waiting for you to unwittingly take a wrong turn.

Project

Slack Desktop

I was the 3rd engineer on Slack's Desktop Foundations team, where I focused on web-desktop interop, performance, build infrastructure, modernization, and code sharing.

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Project

Electron

In my free time I occasionally contribute to Electron, GitHub’s framework for building cross-platform desktop apps with web technologies.

Project

Atom

In my free time I used to contribute to Atom, GitHub’s text editor, as one of the community maintainers of the project.

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Project

Yale University Campus Map

In collaboration with the Office of the University Printer, the Office of Public Affairs & Communications, and the University Library, I developed and designed a revamped online campus map to replace an existing legacy Java application (currently at http://map.yale.edu/map/). This project was intended to be part of the vanguard of new front-end and back-end technologies, and is Yale’s first-ever production Node.js application. Campus Map also marks the beginning of database-less and single-page applications at Yale.

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Get in touch

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