Adam Regasz-rethy
Canada
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Top SchoolAdam Regasz-rethy is a senior production/infrastructure engineer with nine years of experience building reliable systems at scale, most recently at Shopify and previously contributing to production engineering at Airbnb. He blends backend, Android, and data science experience into a practical systems-first approach, moving between hands-on coding and operational ownership. A strong open-source maintainer, he developed and refined the popular vim-illuminate plugin, improving editor ergonomics for developers through LSP and Tree-sitter integrations. A Waterloo CS graduate with distinction, he brings both rigorous academic foundations and a track record of shipping maintainable tooling and infrastructure improvements across high-traffic platforms.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree with Distinction, Computer Science, Honours, Co-operative Program, 86.21%, Bachelor's degree with Distinction, Computer Science, Honours, Co-operative Program, 86.21% at University of Waterloo
English, French
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Github Skills (7)
vim10
plugin-development10
lua10
neovim10
regex9
tree-sitter8
javascript4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
RRethy/vim-illuminate
Jul 2018 - Jan 2023
illuminate.vim - (Neo)Vim plugin for automatically highlighting other uses of the word under the cursor using either LSP, Tree-sitter, or regex matching.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:19 reviews, 156 commits, 70 PRs in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Adam primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a Vim plugin. Their work focused on enhancing the plugin's functionality, including adding features like highlighting the current word under the cursor and refactoring code. They implemented features such as the introduction of customizable highlighting options and support for a delay setting. Moreover, the user addressed several bugs and performed code style improvements to enhance usability and maintainability.
neovim-builtin-lspilluminatevimneoregex
RRethy/nvim-sourcerer
Nov 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
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