👋 Hi, I'm Nicolò!
I have been a core maintainer of Babel since 2017, and I currently one of the most active maintainers.

Maintaining such a big project does not only mean coding: I spend a considerable amount of my online time helping Babel's community and ensuring that everyone finds a welcoming environment. My aim is to make it easy for everyone to start contributing to Babel, and for the existing contributors to feel to be a valuable member of the community.
I also manage releases (with a monorepo of 150 packages, it is not an easy task!), and answer questions in our Slack channel.

I usually contribute to many related projects related to Babel and to JavaScript tools, like regenerator, regexpu-core and compat-table. I'm also the author of jest-light-runner, a popular alternative runner for Jest with full ESM support.

This approach led me to contribute to different ECMAScript proposals and to become an invited expert to TC39 meetings. I now contribute to TC39 as part of my job at Igalia, and I am currently a co-author of the Records and Tuples and Module expressions proposals.

When offline, I am a math student at University of Turin, in Italy 🇮🇹.

When to not donate to me?

• If you want to support the maintenance of Babel, you should consider donating directly to the project on GitHub Sponsors or OpenCollective: those funds are distributed across all the currently paid maintainers, rather than going directly to a single one.
• My contributions to Records and Tuples and to the various TC39 proposals related to modules are part of my job at @Igalia, so I'm already being paid for that! However, if really you want to donate for something related to Igalia, I suggest checking the Open Prioritization and Open Web Docs projects.