Gerard Sanchez
Front End Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGerard Sanchez is a Front End Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently building the Lexical text-editing core at Meta that powers Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. He specializes in JavaScript, React, Relay/GraphQL, and Hack, and has a track record of shipping editor navigation and autocomplete features that improve selection, accessibility, and performance in a widely used open-source framework. At Meta he also improved UX tooling for Workplace’s Admin Panel, demonstrating a blend of infrastructure-level thinking and product-focused design. Earlier work includes front-end contributions to EU research projects and a Google Summer of Code Eddystone web library, showing long-standing involvement in open-source and research-driven engineering. Based in New York, he pairs advanced web-stack expertise with practical full-stack experience from startups to large platforms. Colleagues can expect a developer who moves between low-level editor primitives and high-level UX improvements with equal ease.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Universitat de Lleida
Stackoverflow
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fetch-api
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ubuntu
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visual-studio-code
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Github Skills (47)
editors10
javascript10
text-editor10
multidimensional-arrays10
architecture10
user-interface10
editor10
chat10
code-editor10
nodejs10
react-router10
cookie10
react10
fetch-api10
image9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/lexical
Feb 2021 - Jan 2023
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 1065 reviews, 380 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Gerard's commits primarily focus on enhancing the text editor framework. They implemented methods like `TextNode.selectEnd`, `TextNode.selectNext` and `moveEnd` that enable better navigation and selection within the text editor. They also worked on incorporating a new "Autocomplete" feature, enabling users to select suggestions. Additionally, they incorporated a new "Retain selection" feature. Furthermore, they made improvements to handle text and HTML in tables.
contenteditableexcellentwysiwygrich-text-editorperformance
zurfyx/express-api-starter-kit
Aug 2015 - Mar 2017
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 14 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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