Conrad Buck
CEO, Cofounder at Self-employed
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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RockstarConrad Buck is a software leader and founder with 13 years of experience building developer-focused tooling and front-end systems, now serving as CEO and cofounder of Silphium Labs and creator of the BABLR project. He brings hands-on engineering depth from senior roles at Autodesk Construction Solutions, Facebook, and VMware, combining UI expertise with systems-level thinking. A contributor to major open-source projects like Babel, Recast, and Immutable.js, he’s improved compiler and data-structure internals—work that surfaces in reliable parsing, printing, and immutable collections used across the JavaScript ecosystem. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he blends product intuition with code-level rigor, often tackling subtle iterator, type, and formatting edge cases. Conrad’s engineering curiosity is summed up by his GitHub motto—"Looking for the program that wants to write itself"—reflecting a focus on automation and elegant, maintainable abstractions.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (35)
javascript10
flow-control10
immutablejs10
abstract-syntax-tree10
testing10
work-flow10
typescript10
eslint10
data-structure10
pretier10
compiler-compiler10
control-flow10
typescript-types10
flowtype10
data-structures10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
benjamn/recast
May 2020 - Mar 2022
JavaScript syntax tree transformer, nondestructive pretty-printer, and automatic source map generator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Conrad primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the JavaScript syntax tree transformer, nondestructive pretty-printer, and source map generator. They set up and configured Prettier and ESLint for code formatting and linting, improving code quality. The user also made significant changes to the `lib/fast-path.ts`, `lib/printer.ts`, and test files for handling parenthesis and await expressions. Furthermore, they addressed issues related to printing TSRestType and ensuring correct output of the code.
javascript-syntaxmap-generatorjavascriptprintersource-map
immutable-js/immutable-js
Sep 2018 - Nov 2020
Immutable persistent data collections for Javascript which increase efficiency and simplicity.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 7 PRs, 110 comments in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Conrad primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core functionalities of the immutable-js library. Their contributions involved breaking changes related to iterator handling, including removing `IteratorSequence` and adjusting how iterators are detected. They also fixed documentation issues and addressed a typo. Additionally, the user added support for hashing symbols.
persistent-datastatelessdata-exchangeimmutablejsfunctional-programming
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