Idris Ay

Full-stack feature work on an e-learning platform inside a 30+ person product team with 10+ engineers — PHP, Laravel, Livewire and Tailwind CSS.

• Ship backend services and frontend features for core learning, content delivery and account flows as one of 10+ engineers in a 30+ person product team.
• Integrated Stripe to power subscription billing and recurring payments across the platform.
• Built an automated content-translation pipeline on DeepL's neural translation API to localise learning material across multiple languages.
• Designed and shipped REST API endpoints consumed by the mobile app and partner integrations.
• Use AI tooling (Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot) daily to integrate features faster without lowering the quality bar.

Built React and Next.js features for e-commerce platforms serving major brands including Columbia Sportswear and KOM.

• Built production frontend in TypeScript with Material-UI, focused on reusable, type-safe components.
• Authored a shared component library documented in Storybook and published to npm for reuse across client projects.
• Led the Sentry.io integration after evaluating error-tracking options, improving production observability and bug triage.
• Shipped through Jenkins CI/CD, Jira and GitHub workflows alongside cross-functional teams.

Led a frontend team of 5 on an EU-funded project, coordinating delivery and code quality across the team.

• Led a team of 5 using GitLab and ClickUp for code review, planning, and delivery.
• Translated Figma designs into production-ready, responsive React components.

Designed and delivered the full-stack curriculum for an intensive developer bootcamp.

• Taught HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, Vue, and Node.js to 4 cohorts (250+ students).
• Built reference projects using Material-UI, Bootstrap, Chart.js, Firebase, and third-party APIs to anchor each module.
• Analysed market demand to shape course content toward employability, and ran workshops on frontend topics.

• Built e-commerce tooling for product tracking and operational efficiency.

A macOS menu bar app that watches GitHub pull requests, Jira tickets and Sentry errors, shows which ones are waiting on you and why, and hands any of them to Claude Code, Codex or OpenCode running in a real terminal beside it.

• Polls GitHub, Jira and Sentry from the Electron main process, groups pull requests by who they're blocked on (conflicts, failing checks, changes requested) and sends a notification only when something changes.
• Runs coding agents in real terminals through node-pty; sessions survive quitting the app, report their own state, and leave a run archive with the prompt, report and screenshots.
• Built-in workspace with a CodeMirror editor, diffs and file search, plus on-device dictation through a small Swift helper.
• No account and no server: tokens are encrypted with the macOS Keychain, and prompts reach the agent as a single argument, never as shell code.
• 42k lines of TypeScript · 3 coding agents · 3 integrations — kovan.idrisay.ch · github.com/idrisay/kovan-releases

Stack: TypeScript · Electron · React · node-pty · xterm.js · CodeMirror · Swift · Vitest

A macOS menu bar app that turns dictation into finished writing. Double-tap Shift in any application, speak, double-tap again — the transcript is cleaned up and written straight into the field you were already typing in.

• Fifteen speech and text backends behind two Swift protocols — Apple Speech, Whisper.cpp and Ollama run entirely on-device; OpenAI, Anthropic, Groq and others use your own key.
• Global double-tap hotkeys and text insertion through the macOS Accessibility API, with dictated to-dos parsed into Apple Reminders via EventKit.
• No account, no backend, no telemetry — keys live in the Keychain and requests go straight to the provider.
• Universal binaries built, packaged and released by a GitHub Actions workflow.
• 7.6k lines of Swift · 15 AI providers · 99 languages — voicesmith.idrisay.ch · github.com/idrisay/VoiceSmith

Stack: Swift 6 · SwiftUI · AppKit · SwiftData · AVFoundation · Speech · EventKit · GitHub Actions