Maple Ong
Senior Staff Engineer at Gusto
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaple Ong is a Staff Engineer based in New York with nine years of hands-on experience building and improving Ruby and Rails systems, currently leading backend work at Gusto. They have a strong open-source footprint across high-profile projects—contributing to Shopify tools like packwerk, tapioca, and ruby-lsp, as well as core Ruby and TruffleRuby—where they focused on refactors, language-server features, and VM/YJIT enhancements. Maple combines production engineering with deep language-level knowledge, having added methods to the Ruby core, improved compiler internals, and bolstered test suites for edge cases. Their background spans product companies and research-oriented roles, pairing pragmatic shipping at scale with careful attention to correctness and performance. Colleagues describe them as a thoughtful engineer who surfaces subtle edge cases (e.g., custom inflections and engine loading) and turns them into robust, maintainable code.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other, Bachelor of Science - BS, Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (39)
sorbet10
graalvm10
m-files10
highlight10
rubygems10
testing10
language-server-protocol10
ruby10
truffleruby10
activesupport10
language-server10
highlighter10
compiler-design10
mspec10
semantic10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Shopify/packwerk
Sep 2020 - Jan 2021
Good things come in small packages.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 49 reviews, 32 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Maple primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `packwerk` codebase. They made changes to the `Inflector` class, making it more testable and adding a new constructor. Additionally, the user updated the application validator and made necessary adjustments to the association inspector to incorporate the inflector changes. Several changes were related to custom inflections and how they're loaded and applied within the application, ensuring correct behavior for specific edge cases.
Shopify/ruby-lsp
Mar 2022 - Sep 2022
An opinionated language server for Ruby
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 25 reviews, 99 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Maple primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and robustness of the Ruby LSP (Language Server Protocol) for Ruby. Their contributions include fixing breaking changes related to parser usage, refactoring code for better readability and maintainability, and adding comprehensive test cases to ensure code correctness. The user also implemented semantic highlighting features, a crucial aspect of LSP, and refined the tokenization process, demonstrating a deep understanding of language server architecture.
language-serverrubylsplsp-servervscode-extension
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