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Ricardo A. Vargas R.

Full-Stack Engineer

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I'm a software engineer who specializes in building enjoyable and professional digital experien…

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Dominican Laravel/Vue engineer behind the popular Awesome Laravel Professionals list

assessed from open-source footprint

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55signal

Ricardo is the highest-reach developer in this batch, a Dominican Republic engineer with 13.7 years on GitHub and 42 total stars, working in PHP, Vue, Laravel, JavaScript and TypeScript. His original 'Awesome Laravel Professionals' curated list (25 stars) and the 'Que Toca' Vue/PWA curfew app (14 stars) are real, community-validated work. Note the high fork ratio (0.81) and a fully-abandoned maintenance signal, so most repos are forks, but the standout original projects genuinely landed an audience.

Authorship & open source

Primary authorwrote 80% of commits on awesome-laravel-professionals
17 merged PRs7 commits / yr2 external projects1,547 private contributions / yr

Contributes to

  • lepikhinb/momentum-lock62★
  • seisigmasrl/dgii-rnc-validator8★

What they build

Backend41%
Frontend33%
DevOps26%

Industry experience

  • Developer Tools

Signal breakdown

Originality35
Impact100
Consistency24
Polish33
Stars

42

top repo 25

Original repos

12

81% forks

Followers

24

On GitHub

13.7 yr

Live demos

0

Activity

Quiet

100% stale

Strengths

  • Verified author — wrote 80% of commits on awesome-laravel-professionals
  • Open-source contributor — 2 external projects incl. lepikhinb/momentum-lock (62★)
  • 17 merged pull requests
  • Backend focus with Frontend
  • Domain experience in Developer Tools
  • Core stack: Shell, Vue, PHP, JavaScript

About

I'm a software engineer who specializes in building enjoyable and professional digital experiences. — 68 public repositories and 24 followers on GitHub.

Skills

  • PHP
  • Vue
  • Shell
  • Laravel
  • Packages
  • Professionals
  • JavaScript
  • TypeScript

Featured work

Awesome Laravel Professionals

Usually, we discover Laravel after finding a list of curated packages for the framework. I like to change the perspective and present the Professiona…

  • Laravel
  • Packages
  • PHP
  • Professionals

by Ricardo A. Vargas R.

Que Toca

A simple Vue SPA App with PWA to understand the unnecessary complex schedule for the curfew in the Dominican Republic.

  • Vue

by Ricardo A. Vargas R.

polyrelations

A short example of how to use Laravel Many to Many Polymorphic Relationships with pivot data on the relation table.

  • PHP
  • Laravel
  • Polymorphic
  • Relations

by Ricardo A. Vargas R.

infortune

Chrome Extension. A fun project to validate why you should remove DOM objects instead of using CSS properties to hide content.

  • JavaScript
  • Chrome Extension

by Ricardo A. Vargas R.

Roster Frontend

Vue Frontend for the roster-backend required to solve the Code Challenge defined by Zipdev + Stanbridge.

  • Vue

by Ricardo A. Vargas R.

Btm Pivot Relations

A short example of Laravel Belongs to Many Relationships loading pivot data from the relation table.

  • PHP

by Ricardo A. Vargas R.