Edgar Hipp
Business Owner at Coding Puffin
Paris, Ile-de-France
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Top SchoolEdgar Hipp is a Paris-based web entrepreneur and business owner with 12 years of experience building and shipping web products. He has run Coding Puffin and the paid docxtemplater product since 2017, supporting 300+ customers while combining technical development with commercial strategy through a lean, customer-first approach. A hands-on full-stack engineer, Edgar has improved notable open-source tools—turning nodemon’s delay into a throttling mechanism and adding syntax support and tests to decaffeinate—and has refactored docxtemplater for performance and maintainability. His engineering degree in e-business and varied roles across startups and agencies give him a pragmatic blend of product, engineering, and entrepreneurial instincts.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Mathematics Physics, Mathematics Physics at Lycée FaidherbeIngénieur, E-Business et Entreprenariat, Master, Ingénieur, E-Business et Entreprenariat, Master at Ecole Centrale Lille
English, German, Chinese, Luxembourgish, French
Stackoverflow
20,166reputation
4.6mreached
328answers
109questions
css
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coffeescript
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windows
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php
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laravel
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git
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Github Skills (30)
javascript10
conversions10
node-js10
coffeescript10
testing10
javascripts10
ms-word10
git9
refactor9
refactorings9
laravel9
linux9
windows9
css9
php9
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
open-xml-templating/docxtemplater
May 2013 - Dec 2022
Generate docx, pptx, and xlsx from templates (Word, Powerpoint and Excel documents), from Node.js or the browser. Demo: https://www.docxtemplater.com/demo. #docx #office #generator #templating #report #json #generate #generation #template #create #pptx #docx #xlsx #react #vuejs #angularjs #browser #typescript #image #html #table #chart
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 7 reviews, 2081 commits in 9 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Edgar primarily focused on refactoring and updating the docxtemplater project, addressing issues with data handling and ensuring code quality. They revamped the codebase for performance, incorporating more precise methods. The user also worked on improving the internal workings of the code, including how the various modules and components interacted with each other, resulting in more maintainable and reliable code.
xlsxjson-reportpowerpointdocxexpress
decaffeinate/decaffeinate
Jul 2015 - Jul 2015
Goodbye CoffeeScript, hello JavaScript!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Edgar contributed to the `decaffeinate` project, which is focused on converting CoffeeScript to JavaScript. Their work primarily involved implementing features to support new JavaScript syntax, such as triple quotes and default parameters. The commits also included adding and modifying tests to ensure the accuracy of the conversion process. Furthermore, they added support for multiple operators in CoffeeScript conversion.
decaffeinatejavascriptconversiontypescriptgoodbye
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