Angel Salazar is a software engineer with 11 years of experience based in New York, currently building humanoid robotics systems at Meta and among the early engineers shaping that effort. He has a strong systems and hardware-software background, having led systems for Orion AR Glasses and Ray-Ban Meta and helped build the infrastructure that shipped Oculus Quest devices to millions. Earlier work on Meta’s core GraphQL team and active open-source contributions to prominent projects like Relay and GraphiQL show his full‑stack chops—particularly in mutation handling, optimistic updates, and front-end tooling. Comfortable moving between low-level systems and developer-facing APIs, Angel blends product shipping experience with a knack for pragmatic, maintainable code and user-facing refinements.
GraphiQL & the GraphQL LSP Reference Ecosystem for building browser & IDE tools.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:2 releases, 167 commits, 102 PRs in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Angel primarily contributed to the UI of the GraphiQL interface. Their commits focused on fixing bugs related to dropdown menus and toolbar behavior, modifying the appearance and functionality of select and menu components. They also removed test elements and refactored components to use class names instead of inline styles for improved maintainability and styling.
Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Angel primarily contributed to the Relay framework, focusing on mutations and their configurations. Their work involved implementing and refining mutation functionalities such as RANGE_DELETE and RANGE_ADD, which affect the way data is modified and updated in a Relay application. Furthermore, the user added support for optimistic responses and updaters within mutations, which ensures a smoother user experience. The commits also covered bug fixes related to RelayCompat and the use of ES6 features.
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