Margret Riegert
Backend Engineer at Kagi
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMargret Riegert is a backend engineer based in Cambridge, MA with eight years of experience building reliable systems and improving developer tooling. Currently at Kagi, she brings practical problem-solving from roles at Mercury Systems and a strong engineering foundation from a BS in Computer Engineering at Tufts. She contributes to the Crystal programming language—improving its documentation generation, search URI parsing, and adding support for newer language constructs—demonstrating attention to developer experience and open-source impact. Her background includes teaching digital logic and FPGA toolchains, reflecting a hands-on understanding of low-level systems alongside web-scale backend work. Notably, she has a history of turning legacy processes into savings-producing systems, and she blends customer-facing support experience with deep technical contributions. Colleagues describe her as a creative, detail-oriented engineer who thrives on making complex tooling clearer and more reliable.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Ledyard High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Tufts University
Github Skills (8)
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document-generation10
documents10
documentation10
programming-language9
markdown-it8
markdown8
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
crystal-lang/crystal
Jan 2023 - Mar 2026
The Crystal Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:36 reviews, 26 PRs, 116 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Margret contributed to the Crystal Programming Language repository by adding features and improvements to the documentation generation process. Their work included adding CSS for tables, enhancing documentation for `NoReturn` and `Void`, integrating support for new language features like `lib`, `fun`, and `type` definitions, and updating the URI parsing for search functionality. Additionally, they worked on sanitizing the documentation generation pipeline and integrating URI components for better search functionality.
programming-languagecrystalcompilercrystal-language
nobodywasishere/crystal
Jan 2023 - Jul 2026
The Crystal Programming Language
Contributions:76 pushes, 40 branches in 3 years 6 months
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