Marco Roth
Founder at Toolsday GmbH
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Top SchoolMarco Roth is a founder and full-stack Rubyist based in Basel with 10 years' experience building web and IoT applications. He leads Toolsday GmbH while actively contributing to the Hotwire ecosystem—Turbo, Stimulus, stimulus-use and Phlex—where his work ranges from introducing a Cache class in Turbo to adding a render-to-string API and enhanced attribute handling in Phlex. Previously he shipped full-stack systems at Endress+Hauser and Online Travel and taught web development at Le Wagon, blending product-facing engineering with hands-on mentorship. With a BSc in Computer Science from Lucerne, he focuses on developer experience and pragmatic improvements to view/component ergonomics that quietly boost front-end performance and maintainability.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training, Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training at Gewerblich-industrielle Berufsfachschule MuttenzBachelor of Science in Computer Science, Bachelor of Science in Computer Science at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts
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Github Skills (35)
component-based10
sti10
debugging10
caching10
debug10
javascript10
actioncable10
testing10
typescript10
stimulusjs10
rails10
ruby10
front-end-development10
turbo10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
stimulus-use/stimulus-use
Jul 2020 - Jan 2023
A collection of composable behaviors for your Stimulus Controllers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 96 reviews, 59 commits in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily contributed to the `stimulus-use` repository, a collection of composable behaviors for Stimulus controllers. Their work focused on adding and refactoring specific behaviors, most notably `useIdle` for detecting user inactivity and `useWindowSize` for detecting window resizing. The user also refactored existing code, renamed events, and addressed review feedback, all while adding new features and tests.
behaviorshotwirecontrollersturbostimulus
stimulusreflex/stimulus_reflex
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Build reactive applications with the Rails tooling you already know and love.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 122 reviews, 86 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Marco primarily focused on enhancing the debugging and development experience for the StimulusReflex library. They implemented console logging for reflex calls, added functionality to call stimulate without a target, and fixed a bug related to undefined events. Furthermore, the user refactored the form serialization process, integrating form data directly on the server-side. The user also added tests for serialization.
ruby-on-railsactioncablehotwirerailsturbo
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