Gabe Ragland
Staff Engineer at Stripe
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabe Ragland is a staff engineer in Portland with 12 years of experience building product-first web applications and developer tools. He founded multiple consumer startups (imgfave, MusicPlayer) that scaled to millions of users and predictable revenue, and now combines that entrepreneurial product sensibility with senior engineering at Stripe and prior work at Lexica. As founder of Divjoy he continues shipping tooling for developers while contributing to open source front-end projects and a popular React hooks collection. Gabe also builds pragmatic full-stack utilities—his ChatGPT Chrome extension integrates image generation and configurable responses—showing a penchant for human-centered automation. He moves comfortably between product, infrastructure, and UX, and brings a track record of turning growth-stage ideas into reliable, shipped systems. A Colorado College sociology graduate and Y Combinator alum, he pairs technical depth with a user-focused perspective that surfaces non-obvious product insights.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Y CombinatorBachelor of Arts (BA) Sociology, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Sociology at Colorado College
Github Skills (19)
hook10
javascript10
react-hooks10
browser-extension10
css10
chrome-extension10
chrome-app10
chrome-plugin10
react10
gatsby10
api-design9
expressjs9
nodejs9
html8
plugin8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
uidotdev/usehooks
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
A collection of modern, server-safe React hooks – from the ui.dev team
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 129 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Gabe primarily contributed to the front-end development of the project. They added a GitHub link and icon to the layout, updated page titles and meta descriptions, and fixed code formatting. Additionally, the user made minor style tweaks and addressed various updates related to the email signup component, including updating subscriber counts. They also added functionality to display TypeScript code examples.
gatsbyreactrecipesreact-hookseasy-to-understand
gragland/chatgpt-chrome-extension
Dec 2022 - Feb 2023
A ChatGPT Chrome extension. Integrates ChatGPT into every text box on the internet.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gabe primarily contributed to the development of a ChatGPT Chrome extension. Their work included implementing features such as integrating ChatGPT into text boxes, adding image generation functionality through an API integration, and customizing the response with different styles. They also refactored the codebase by introducing a config file and improving the plugin structure. The user also made improvements to the UI with updates for text areas and inputs, as well as adding notes on adblockers.
chatgpt-pluginboxchattext-boxchrome
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