Why am I looking for sponsors?

As you know, Node.js is a project under the OpenJS Foundation and Linux Foundation. Node.js is a project that is used by billions of people every year, but has no budget. This means, people like me contribute to Node.js on their own time, without earning anything.

Who is Yagiz?

• I'm a voting member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee
• I'm a voting member of the OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council
• I'm the founder of Node.js performance team
• I'm the former champion for Node.js performance strategic initiative.
• I'm the author and maintainer of fast-querystring package with 3.5 million weekly downloads.

My work

I work mostly on Node.js performance. Here are my recent contributions to Node.js:

• I am the author of Ada URL parser, the URL parser of Node.js and Cloudflare workers.
  • Fun fact: Ada URL parser is named after my daughter Ada.
• Worked and improved the performance of node:fs error handling with significant impact
• Added .env file support to Node.js
• Improved the performance of pathToFileURL
• Improved fs.readFileSync UTF-8 performance by 70%
• Reduced Node.js' dependency to ICU library
• Implement node --run <script-in-package-json>

Up until now I contributed more than 200+ commits to Node.js repository, and I'm currently in the top 30 of most contributed people to Node.js worldwide.

Disclaimer

Node.js is an open-source project under OpenJS Foundation where majority of people contributing to Node.js doesn't get paid for their work (including me)

Your Github sponsorship will help me prioritize my contributions to Node.js and impact the whole Node.js ecosystem.

Your sponsorship means a lot!