Bo Lord
NEET at Freelance
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBo Lord is a software engineer with 12 years of experience focused on systems-level and front-end engineering, particularly in Rust and text-input tooling. He contributed to Google's Fuchsia team and to prominent open-source projects like the Rust-native UI toolkit druid, where he implemented cross-platform text input and macOS IME/dead-key support. His work spans low-level input handling and polished front-end documentation improvements, reflecting a rare blend of platform internals and user-facing polish. Based in New York, he prefers direct email contact and maintains a freelance/independent practice, bringing pragmatic, in-depth technical problem solving to both product and open-source codebases.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Carleton College
Github Skills (15)
html10
css10
uid10
macos10
javascript10
rust10
front-end-development10
jquery10
ui-design10
textinput10
documentation10
api-design9
lunrjs9
responsive-design9
redcarpet8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
slatedocs/slate
Jan 2016 - Jul 2018
Beautiful static documentation for your API
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 4 reviews, 5 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Bo primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the API documentation project. Their work involved the addition, modification, and maintenance of stylesheets, JavaScript, and HTML files to generate and style the documentation. The user implemented a table of contents feature using the Tocify library, and made improvements to the language selection functionality. Furthermore, the user updated various style elements and fixed associated bugs.
apislateapi-documentationopenapistatic-site-generator
linebender/druid
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 8 commits, 2 PRs in 22 days
Contributions summary:Bo primarily contributed to implementing text input functionalities within the `druid-shell` project, specifically focusing on the macOS platform. Their work involved adding APIs for cross-platform text input, which included creating an initial macOS implementation with support for dead keys and IME input. Additionally, the user refactored and improved existing code related to text field interactions, including changes to text handling and user input commands. The user also added an example `edit_text` to test and demonstrate the correct functioning of the new APIs.
reactrustnative-uirust-nativeui-design
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