Brian Vaughn
Software Engineer at Citadel
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Vaughn is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building developer tools and high-performance front-end libraries, now based in New York. He has contributed to and led work at Facebook (React core and DevTools), Google, Replay.io, and Citadel, blending deep React expertise with product-facing developer tooling. Brian is the author and maintainer of widely used open-source projects like react-virtualized and react-window, focusing on performance for large lists and developer ergonomics. He combines hands-on UI polishing—CSS, accessibility, demos—with algorithmic work like client-side search and TF-IDF indexing, reflecting full-stack instincts. Regularly shipping production-quality tooling that millions use, he also writes and speaks about developer experience and debugging. Outside obvious library work, he’s skilled at migrating and modernizing documentation and site tooling (Gatsby/React sites), showing attention to both engineers’ and end-users’ workflows.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Digital & Interactive Media Graphic Design Computer Science Art, Digital & Interactive Media Graphic Design Computer Science Art at James Madison University
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Github Skills (76)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bvaughn/js-search
Jul 2015 - May 2019
JS Search is an efficient, client-side search library for JavaScript and JSON objects
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 25 PRs, 107 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the development of the JS Search library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and usability. Their work involved refactoring the core code, adding features like nested property indexing and TF-IDF, and creating new indexing strategies and sanitizers. They also improved the library by adding documentation and demo files, along with related tests.
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bvaughn/react-virtualized
Nov 2015 - Apr 2018
React components for efficiently rendering large lists and tabular data
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 1346 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily focus on enhancing the user interface of the React virtualized project. They modified CSS modules, simplified class names, and made adjustments to the display and appearance of demo elements. Additionally, the user contributed by adding properties, testing, and expanding the available properties of grid and list components.
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