My Journey with Express

My journey as an Express maintainer began in August 2024, when I submitted my first pull request with an improvement to the design of the official Express website. Since then, I’ve been actively involved in the community, contributing bug fixes and improvements to both the documentation and packages maintained by the organization.

Throughout this path, I’ve taken on various roles and responsibilities within different teams, always aiming to strengthen the project, improve the user experience, and ensure Express’ long-term sustainability.

Documentation Team

• On August 5, 2024, I joined the documentation team as a regular contributor, reviewing pull requests and submitting design and content improvements - expressjs/expressjs.com#1506.
• On October 20, 2024, I became documentation team captain, leading efforts to improve and keep Express documentation up-to-date - expressjs/expressjs.com#1506.
• I led and collaborated with other team members on Crowdin integration, aiming to improve translation experience and keep documentation updated in multiple languages - expressjs/expressjs.com#1676.
• I represented the team in discussions for potential sponsorship with Scrimba, which unfortunately didn’t materialize - expressjs/expressjs.com#2005
• I’m actively working on redesigning and rebuilding the official Express website, aiming to offer more modern, accessible, and user-friendly documentation - expressjs/expressjs.com#1787 y expressjs/expressjs.com#2002
• I maintain the day-to-day of expressjs.com, ensuring content is up-to-date and user experience is top-notch.

Security Team

• I joined the security team on February 17, 2025, aiming to improve project internal practices - expressjs/security-wg#42
• I’ve driven several key initiatives to strengthen Express security, including:
  • Proposal to use GitHub Security Advisories for vulnerability reporting, allowing clearer and more structured report management - expressjs/security-wg#30
  • Extension of response time to handle and resolve vulnerability reports, considering the team is composed of volunteers - expressjs/security-wg#54.
  • Proposal to unify security policies in a single file, aiming to centralize and simplify maintenance - expressjs/security-wg#48.
• I initiated efforts to integrate CodeQL in Express main repositories, improving vulnerability detection and OpenSSF Scorecard score.
• I’m an active member of the security triage team since September 15, 2025 - expressjs/security-wg#105.
• I’ve collaborated on managing the following vulnerability reports:
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wqch-xfxh-vrr4
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g5hg-p3ph-g8qg

Triage Team

The triage team reviews, classifies incoming issues and pull requests to ensure they’re addressed promptly and efficiently.

• I joined the triage team on October 6, 2024, actively collaborating on managing Express repositories workflow.
• During my time in the team, my participation was distributed as follows:
  • Express.js - GitHub Search:
    • Participation in over 426 issues, including opening, closing, and commenting to help unblock other contributors’ work.
    • Participation in over 1,000 pull requests, supporting reviews and facilitating progress.
  • Jshttp - GitHub Search:
    • Participation in over 18 issues, including opening, closing, and commenting to help unblock other contributors’ work.
    • Participation in over 160 pull requests, supporting reviews and facilitating progress.
  • Pillajs - GitHub Search:
    • Participation in over 29 issues, including opening, closing, and commenting to help unblock other contributors’ work.
    • Participation in over 144 pull requests, supporting reviews and facilitating progress.
• On November 12, 2025, I became triage team captain, leading initiatives to incorporate new members and improve internal processes.
• Nominations I’ve made for new triage team members:
  • @Phillip9587

Technical Initiatives

• I led development of compression package version 1.8.0, which included Brotli support and adoption of Node.js public APIs - expressjs/compression#212.
• I took leadership in iconv-lite development, also collaborating to bring Express adoption under solid and sustainable governance.
• I led development of codemods for Express v4 to v5 migration, also taking this initiative for future major migrations.
• I’m involved in research to remove monkey patching in Express v5 - expressjs/express#6669 and nodejs/web-server-frameworks#127.
• I collaborate on efforts to enable HTTP/2 in Express - expressjs/discussions#407.

Performance Team

This team monitors and improves performance of Express-maintained packages.

• I joined the team since its creation in April 2025.
• I’ve actively participated in scheduled meetings.
• I contribute to technical discussions focused on improving performance and efficiency of Express ecosystem packages.

TypeScript Team

This is a relatively new team, focused on maintaining and improving TypeScript types for Express and related packages. The main goal is to integrate TypeScript types directly into Express core packages, improving development experience and reducing dependency on external definitions.

• I’m actively involved in defining guidelines and evolving this initiative within the project.

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