Grant Sander
Staff Software Engineer at Ramp
Valparaiso, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGrant Sander is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building secure, high-performance web and cross-platform mobile apps, primarily in TypeScript and React/React Native. He has led teams and product areas at Ramp and steered engineering and open-source work at Formidable, contributing notable features to libraries like Victory (React data-visualization) and Spectacle. Equally comfortable shipping polished front-ends and pragmatic back-end services in Node/Python, he combines strong UX sensibilities with systems thinking to deliver measurable product impact. With a background in mathematics (MA, BS) and time as a curriculum developer and instructor, he brings a penchant for clear explanations and “nerdy” math-driven problem solving to engineering and mentorship. Based in Valparaiso, Indiana, he’s a builder who values humans as much as code, often translating complex specs into delightful, maintainable interfaces.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts - MA Mathematics, Master of Arts - MA Mathematics at Arizona State University
Github Skills (19)
presenter10
javascript10
presentationml10
react-native10
slide10
charts10
presentation-layer10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
jsx10
markdown9
expo9
markdown-it9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/spectacle
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
A React-based library for creating sleek presentations using JSX syntax that gives you the ability to live demo your code.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:116 reviews, 55 commits, 64 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily contributed to enhancing the `formidablelabs/spectacle` library, a React-based presentation tool. Their work involved adding a new feature to animate list items within Markdown slides, integrating it across various components like `Markdown`, `MarkdownSlide`, and `MarkdownSlideSet`. They also focused on component prop pass-through, ensuring that styling and other configurations could be consistently applied. Additionally, the user made updates for React 18 compatibility and the introduction of slide layout helpers.
keynotereactpresentationjavascriptspectacle
FormidableLabs/victory
Sep 2021 - Jul 2022
A collection of composable React components for building interactive data visualizations
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 54 commits, 23 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Grant primarily focused on adding and modifying React Native components for data visualization. Their contributions included integrating Victory Native components, creating an initial Expo boilerplate, and converting core components like VictoryChart, VictoryGroup, and VictoryStack. They also developed demo screens showcasing various chart types, including areas, lines, and bar charts. Additionally, they addressed dependency management and configuration for the React Native project.
chartsreactvisualizationscomposabledata-visualization
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