KittyCAD/modeling-app
Oct 2024 – Jun 2025
9 Months active
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Technical Skills
Build AutomationCI/CDElectron DevelopmentVersion ManagementAutomationFront End Development
Pierre Jacquier
PROFILE
Pierre Jacquier
Pierre Jacquier developed core features and infrastructure for the KittyCAD/modeling-app, focusing on 3D modeling workflows, release automation, and cross-platform reliability. He engineered point-and-click modeling tools, streamlined update and release flows, and enhanced the feature tree for editing and collaboration. Using TypeScript, React, and Electron, Pierre refactored UI components, improved CI/CD pipelines, and implemented robust end-to-end testing with Playwright. His work addressed platform-specific challenges, optimized build automation, and maintained code quality through linting and test suite improvements. The result was a more stable, user-friendly application with scalable foundations, supporting rapid iteration and consistent delivery across Windows, macOS, and Linux.
Overall Statistics
Feature vs Bugs
60%Features
Repository Contributions
225Total
Bugs
65
Commits
225
Features
98
Lines of code
67,030
Activity Months9
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31 peopleWork History
June 2025
17 Commits • 4 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 — KittyCAD/modeling-app delivered a cohesive set of user-focused enhancements, reliability improvements, and scalable foundations for ongoing development. Key features include a refined point-and-click modeling workflow with optional Revolve arguments, improved Translate/Rotate editing in the feature tree, Helix UI refinements, and enhanced multi-select behavior for subtract operations. A desktop update pipeline was introduced with a Check for Updates flow, including polished updater messaging and visibility constraints for enterprise plans. The testing and quality bar was raised through test suite improvements, linting refinements, and CI/CD workflow enhancements. These changes reduce time-to-value for users, improve stability in evolving engine behavior, and increase release confidence across platforms.
17 Commits • 4 Features
Jun 1, 2025June 2025 — KittyCAD/modeling-app delivered a cohesive set of user-focused enhancements, reliability improvements, and scalable foundations for ongoing development. Key features include a refined point-and-click modeling workflow with optional Revolve arguments, improved Translate/Rotate editing in the feature tree, Helix UI refinements, and enhanced multi-select behavior for subtract operations. A desktop update pipeline was introduced with a Check for Updates flow, including polished updater messaging and visibility constraints for enterprise plans. The testing and quality bar was raised through test suite improvements, linting refinements, and CI/CD workflow enhancements. These changes reduce time-to-value for users, improve stability in evolving engine behavior, and increase release confidence across platforms.
June 2025
May 2025
52 Commits • 21 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 was a focused sprint delivering user-facing features, reliability improvements, and release-readiness for KittyCAD/modeling-app. Key features and UX improvements were introduced to simplify workflows and enhance collaboration, while security and CI hygiene reduced risk and streamlined releases. The team also advanced nightly release automation and UI tweaks to accelerate and stabilize nightly builds and communications with stakeholders.
May 2025
52 Commits • 21 Features
May 1, 2025May 2025 was a focused sprint delivering user-facing features, reliability improvements, and release-readiness for KittyCAD/modeling-app. Key features and UX improvements were introduced to simplify workflows and enhance collaboration, while security and CI hygiene reduced risk and streamlined releases. The team also advanced nightly release automation and UI tweaks to accelerate and stabilize nightly builds and communications with stakeholders.
April 2025
32 Commits • 13 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — KittyCAD/modeling-app (Zoo Design Studio) - Key features delivered - Branding and UX refresh: fully renamed the application to Zoo Design Studio with UI and docs updated; resolved URL encoding issues after rename and fixed a settings.md typo; default project name now set to 'untitled' for new workstreams. - Major bugs fixed - Corrected URL-encoded names after rename; fix for rename-related typos; sign-in Back button behavior improved with Cancel support; logout flow stabilization on desktop; local name clash checks in the Insert flow; feature tree loading indicator managed to avoid oversized UI and scrolling issues. - Overall impact and accomplishments - Strengthened brand clarity and reduced user confusion around project naming; more robust import/assembly workflows and faster, more reliable end-to-end testing; improved release readiness and CI stability through tooling and infrastructure upgrades. - Technologies/skills demonstrated - Front-end refactoring and localization of branding; e2e testing enhancements (Playwright); Windows code signing fixes; migration of CI/build pipeline from Yarn v1 to npm; codemod updates to align with new import behavior; enhancements to point-and-click UX (assemblies) and release tooling.
32 Commits • 13 Features
Apr 1, 2025April 2025 — KittyCAD/modeling-app (Zoo Design Studio) - Key features delivered - Branding and UX refresh: fully renamed the application to Zoo Design Studio with UI and docs updated; resolved URL encoding issues after rename and fixed a settings.md typo; default project name now set to 'untitled' for new workstreams. - Major bugs fixed - Corrected URL-encoded names after rename; fix for rename-related typos; sign-in Back button behavior improved with Cancel support; logout flow stabilization on desktop; local name clash checks in the Insert flow; feature tree loading indicator managed to avoid oversized UI and scrolling issues. - Overall impact and accomplishments - Strengthened brand clarity and reduced user confusion around project naming; more robust import/assembly workflows and faster, more reliable end-to-end testing; improved release readiness and CI stability through tooling and infrastructure upgrades. - Technologies/skills demonstrated - Front-end refactoring and localization of branding; e2e testing enhancements (Playwright); Windows code signing fixes; migration of CI/build pipeline from Yarn v1 to npm; codemod updates to align with new import behavior; enhancements to point-and-click UX (assemblies) and release tooling.
April 2025
March 2025
28 Commits • 13 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 – KittyCAD/modeling-app achieved stability, cost efficiency, and richer user workflows. Delivered features and improvements include: CI/Testing Enhancements (simplified CI by removing an unused step, dedicated snapshot tests, hourly end-to-end tests on Ubuntu, a single Playwright worker, and auto-retries on snapshots); WASM build tooling and caching (build cache, migration of wasm commands to dedicated scripts, and ensuring the latest wasm bundle script is executable); Cloud/infra optimization (moved Ubuntu workloads to AWS to reduce namespace resource usage); Core UI/Renderer and editing improvements (Shell thickness edit flow; point-and-click Helix with edge/segment selection; Revolve and Chamfer/Fillet edits; sweep sectional workflow enhancements); Test infrastructure and quality improvements (added 9 test fixmes, cleaned up environment vars, and enhanced lint/test reliability). Major bugs fixed include HIDPI hover, deltaY clipping, deep links on second instance, topLevelAwait issues in electron renderer, and a 404 regression on the car wheel sample. Impact: faster feedback loops, lower build/test costs, and more robust releases, with expanded user editing capabilities that improve design throughput. Technologies/skills demonstrated: CI/CD, Playwright/e2e testing, WASM tooling and caching, shell scripting, AWS cloud infrastructure optimization, test scaffolding, and advanced UI/renderer debugging.
March 2025
28 Commits • 13 Features
Mar 1, 2025March 2025 – KittyCAD/modeling-app achieved stability, cost efficiency, and richer user workflows. Delivered features and improvements include: CI/Testing Enhancements (simplified CI by removing an unused step, dedicated snapshot tests, hourly end-to-end tests on Ubuntu, a single Playwright worker, and auto-retries on snapshots); WASM build tooling and caching (build cache, migration of wasm commands to dedicated scripts, and ensuring the latest wasm bundle script is executable); Cloud/infra optimization (moved Ubuntu workloads to AWS to reduce namespace resource usage); Core UI/Renderer and editing improvements (Shell thickness edit flow; point-and-click Helix with edge/segment selection; Revolve and Chamfer/Fillet edits; sweep sectional workflow enhancements); Test infrastructure and quality improvements (added 9 test fixmes, cleaned up environment vars, and enhanced lint/test reliability). Major bugs fixed include HIDPI hover, deltaY clipping, deep links on second instance, topLevelAwait issues in electron renderer, and a 404 regression on the car wheel sample. Impact: faster feedback loops, lower build/test costs, and more robust releases, with expanded user editing capabilities that improve design throughput. Technologies/skills demonstrated: CI/CD, Playwright/e2e testing, WASM tooling and caching, shell scripting, AWS cloud infrastructure optimization, test scaffolding, and advanced UI/renderer debugging.
February 2025
41 Commits • 20 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (2025-02) performance summary for KittyCAD/modeling-app: Key features delivered: - Point-and-click Sweep generally available, enabling a streamlined user workflow (commit 428d1251396f75ead441dddb248f0dc83de1bce7). - Share Link feature released and enabled in nightly builds, expanding collaboration options and ensuring early feedback (commits a44516bc7e318c6a58c6f56364f0d025a2dc74ed; bc4d254297109cf9ba1f7d911a75555153d20868). - UI and UX refinements including moving Helix button to the offset plane section and removing a toolbar hole to improve ergonomics (commits 138728a95d6d88d45db291238c47279255c21bea; 02c2e80b317ab75a1ea612928aa11fa4ee386954). - Playwright test efficiency improvements, including faster local Electron tests and external retry workflow, enhancing CI reliability and developer feedback loops (commits 9a92e7d6423f5927baf227698bc02400c6e39984; 388371b05d37f9caf9b92c78a2c8d14d824adaf7). - Nightly builds enhancements and scheduling changes to support automated end-to-end testing and manual triggers (commits cb5ad3ab27254225f232993b1e813fc20d9aecbf; 69a147319702df69278f4f5a304cbfb56e106ee2). Major bugs fixed: - Reverted a previous disable of text-to-cad tests post kwargs merge and stabilized test suite, restoring test coverage (commit f4d5578fafe9556e728d025298f1a55078cf03b6). - Fixed fetch:samples script after kwargs merge and updated related tooling to maintain reliability (commit a277cce63628a69ecb23e7a1c8bd5c5ec82aec99). - Updated gizmo e2e camera values to reflect UI changes and improve test accuracy (commit 95fd14eedc30f0a35fdcad53689fc207634f20ad). - Resolved stability issues including multi-second blank screen on second instance and Windows-specific interactions (commits 6f3f5dbda921679ca3378fba7bf27daafa7fe8ed; 30029a63a1a993e2135c08ce1f903f0ac1afaa42). - Miscellaneous reliability fixes for Windows paths and updater flows, including prompts and error visibility (commits 4d1eaf938169b4b2ba9bebba372f41075ca65b4f; b3cd5ef3ba18fc9cd47befe41d21363a0a35aed8). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Substantially improved product reliability and collaborative workflows, accelerating feature delivery while reducing CI flakiness. - Faster local and CI test cycles enable more rapid iteration and higher code quality. - Expanded Windows and cross-platform coverage through targeted test enablement and stability fixes. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Playwright-based end-to-end testing and test stability engineering (CI reliability, Windows/Linux coverage). - Electron and Electron-builder dependency management and platform-specific considerations. - CI/CD automation, including nightly builds, token management for bots, and snapshot automation. - UI/UX refinement and product-oriented feature delivery, with attention to developer ergonomics and workflow efficiency.
41 Commits • 20 Features
Feb 1, 2025February 2025 (2025-02) performance summary for KittyCAD/modeling-app: Key features delivered: - Point-and-click Sweep generally available, enabling a streamlined user workflow (commit 428d1251396f75ead441dddb248f0dc83de1bce7). - Share Link feature released and enabled in nightly builds, expanding collaboration options and ensuring early feedback (commits a44516bc7e318c6a58c6f56364f0d025a2dc74ed; bc4d254297109cf9ba1f7d911a75555153d20868). - UI and UX refinements including moving Helix button to the offset plane section and removing a toolbar hole to improve ergonomics (commits 138728a95d6d88d45db291238c47279255c21bea; 02c2e80b317ab75a1ea612928aa11fa4ee386954). - Playwright test efficiency improvements, including faster local Electron tests and external retry workflow, enhancing CI reliability and developer feedback loops (commits 9a92e7d6423f5927baf227698bc02400c6e39984; 388371b05d37f9caf9b92c78a2c8d14d824adaf7). - Nightly builds enhancements and scheduling changes to support automated end-to-end testing and manual triggers (commits cb5ad3ab27254225f232993b1e813fc20d9aecbf; 69a147319702df69278f4f5a304cbfb56e106ee2). Major bugs fixed: - Reverted a previous disable of text-to-cad tests post kwargs merge and stabilized test suite, restoring test coverage (commit f4d5578fafe9556e728d025298f1a55078cf03b6). - Fixed fetch:samples script after kwargs merge and updated related tooling to maintain reliability (commit a277cce63628a69ecb23e7a1c8bd5c5ec82aec99). - Updated gizmo e2e camera values to reflect UI changes and improve test accuracy (commit 95fd14eedc30f0a35fdcad53689fc207634f20ad). - Resolved stability issues including multi-second blank screen on second instance and Windows-specific interactions (commits 6f3f5dbda921679ca3378fba7bf27daafa7fe8ed; 30029a63a1a993e2135c08ce1f903f0ac1afaa42). - Miscellaneous reliability fixes for Windows paths and updater flows, including prompts and error visibility (commits 4d1eaf938169b4b2ba9bebba372f41075ca65b4f; b3cd5ef3ba18fc9cd47befe41d21363a0a35aed8). Overall impact and accomplishments: - Substantially improved product reliability and collaborative workflows, accelerating feature delivery while reducing CI flakiness. - Faster local and CI test cycles enable more rapid iteration and higher code quality. - Expanded Windows and cross-platform coverage through targeted test enablement and stability fixes. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Playwright-based end-to-end testing and test stability engineering (CI reliability, Windows/Linux coverage). - Electron and Electron-builder dependency management and platform-specific considerations. - CI/CD automation, including nightly builds, token management for bots, and snapshot automation. - UI/UX refinement and product-oriented feature delivery, with attention to developer ergonomics and workflow efficiency.
February 2025
January 2025
25 Commits • 15 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 (KittyCAD/modeling-app) focused on reliability, developer UX, and CI efficiency across the product. Key features include stability improvements for builds and tests, UX enhancements for editors and updater flows, and optimization of CI workloads. The team delivered cross-platform reliability, improved user workflows, and actionable feedback mechanisms to accelerate development and reduce operational risk.
January 2025
25 Commits • 15 Features
Jan 1, 2025January 2025 (KittyCAD/modeling-app) focused on reliability, developer UX, and CI efficiency across the product. Key features include stability improvements for builds and tests, UX enhancements for editors and updater flows, and optimization of CI workloads. The team delivered cross-platform reliability, improved user workflows, and actionable feedback mechanisms to accelerate development and reduce operational risk.
December 2024
20 Commits • 8 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 highlights for KittyCAD/modeling-app: a focused set of UI/UX polish, usability enhancements, and release stability work that delivers clear business value while maintaining a robust platform. Key features delivered include UI/UX polish and assets, point-and-click Loft and Shell interactions, release automation improvements with changelog coverage, and platform maintenance (Node LTS upgrade, Electron version pinning, and platform install docs). In addition, reliability improvements across nightly builds were implemented to improve release traceability and post-publish consistency. These efforts demonstrate strong cross-cutting technical skills in frontend polish, UX-driven feature work, build/release engineering, and platform stability.
20 Commits • 8 Features
Dec 1, 2024December 2024 highlights for KittyCAD/modeling-app: a focused set of UI/UX polish, usability enhancements, and release stability work that delivers clear business value while maintaining a robust platform. Key features delivered include UI/UX polish and assets, point-and-click Loft and Shell interactions, release automation improvements with changelog coverage, and platform maintenance (Node LTS upgrade, Electron version pinning, and platform install docs). In addition, reliability improvements across nightly builds were implemented to improve release traceability and post-publish consistency. These efforts demonstrate strong cross-cutting technical skills in frontend polish, UX-driven feature work, build/release engineering, and platform stability.
December 2024
November 2024
8 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024: Focused on reliability, automation, and user-facing UX improvements for KittyCAD/modeling-app. Key work included updater stabilization, a streamlined tag-based release process with corrected artifact publishing, and enhancements to nightly builds and the About page. These changes reduced update risk, accelerated release cadence, and improved nightly distribution UX for end users.
November 2024
8 Commits • 2 Features
Nov 1, 2024November 2024: Focused on reliability, automation, and user-facing UX improvements for KittyCAD/modeling-app. Key work included updater stabilization, a streamlined tag-based release process with corrected artifact publishing, and enhancements to nightly builds and the About page. These changes reduced update risk, accelerated release cadence, and improved nightly distribution UX for end users.
October 2024
2 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 performance summary for KittyCAD/modeling-app: Delivered two targeted changes that improve security, stability, and release reliability: 1) Node.js runtime upgrade to v21.7.3 to incorporate latest patches; 2) CI/CD refactor to segregate macOS Electron-builder into distinct debug and release workflows with release-time code signing and configurations. These changes reduce security risk, prevent release configurations from leaking into debug builds, and accelerate safe delivery of features to users. They also streamline release governance and provide clearer feedback loops for developers.
2 Commits • 2 Features
Oct 1, 2024October 2024 performance summary for KittyCAD/modeling-app: Delivered two targeted changes that improve security, stability, and release reliability: 1) Node.js runtime upgrade to v21.7.3 to incorporate latest patches; 2) CI/CD refactor to segregate macOS Electron-builder into distinct debug and release workflows with release-time code signing and configurations. These changes reduce security risk, prevent release configurations from leaking into debug builds, and accelerate safe delivery of features to users. They also streamline release governance and provide clearer feedback loops for developers.
October 2024
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Quality Metrics
Correctness88.8%
Maintainability87.6%
Architecture84.0%
Performance84.4%
AI Usage22.4%
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