Devon Rueckner
Product Engineer at Foxglove
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDevon Rueckner is a product engineer in New York with 11 years of multidisciplinary experience building front-end and full-stack tools that amplify human productivity and creativity. He led development of the Kolibri learning platform at Learning Equality—contributing thousands of commits, shipping 15 major releases, and creating a shared design system used across products—and now applies that product-first engineering approach at Foxglove. Equally comfortable in Vue.js/Django stacks, embedded C++ for hardware, and data visualization with D3/Jupyter, Devon bridges UX, product management, and hands-on implementation. He also founded Basil Gang to build eye-tracked camera control for fast-paced photography, reflecting a knack for combining hardware, software, and craft skills (woodworking/metalworking). An active open-source contributor, his work spans UI refactors, internationalization, and reliability improvements across notable repos like Kolibri and notion-py.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Continuing Education, Woodworking and fabrication, Continuing Education, Woodworking and fabrication at 3rd Ward BrooklynBachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and ArtContinuing Education, Metalworking and fabrication, Continuing Education, Metalworking and fabrication at Pratt InstituteContinuing Education, Continuing Education at UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering
Github Skills (28)
notion-api10
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
python10
ui-components10
sc10
scs10
api10
front-end-development10
vue10
html10
vue-jsx10
webpack9
django9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
learningequality/kolibri
May 2016 - Dec 2021
Kolibri Learning Platform: the offline app for universal education
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:106 releases, 178 reviews, 4922 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Devon's commits primarily focus on refactoring and improving the Kolibri learning platform's codebase. They made changes to enhance the user interface, including the implementation of new components and styling adjustments. They also contributed to the improvement of user-facing text and UI components while adding internationalization support for consistency. Moreover, the user addressed bugs, streamlined the layout and made updates to the build tools for performance improvements.
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learningequality/studio
Dec 2016 - Oct 2021
Content curation tools for Kolibri
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 reviews, 45 commits, 27 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Devon contributed to the front-end and back-end of the `learningequality/studio` repository. They worked on implementing and updating the user interface for the accounts section of the application, using Vue.js, Vuetify, and related front-end technologies. Additionally, the user made changes to the back-end code, including updates to Django views, template rendering, and data serialization. This user's work also included refactoring directory structures and updating the project's webpack configuration.
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