Nicholas Ray
Senior Software Developer at Horrocks
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNicholas Ray is a senior software developer with 11 years of experience specializing in front-end engineering, performance optimization, and accessible UX. He played a key role in Wikipedia’s 2023 redesign—impacting over 10 billion monthly page views—and earned a “Web Performance Hero” award for improving rendering and client-side metrics in MediaWiki. Nicholas builds resilient, device- and network-friendly experiences using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, HTML, and CSS, and he has a track record of automating tedious QA through visual regression tooling adopted by multiple teams. Beyond large-scale open-source work, he runs a profitable consultancy (NRAY LLC) and currently contributes senior engineering leadership at Horrocks from Salt Lake City. An atypical detail: he has hands-on experience adding client-side performance marks and refining keyboard behavior in core Wikimedia code, showing attention to both measurable performance and nuanced accessibility.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at University of Oregon
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
mediawiki10
javascript10
performance-monitor10
metric10
wikipedia10
html9
css8
bucket-sort6
php6
multidimensional-arrays6
sorting6
java6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
wikimedia/mediawiki
Oct 2020 - Dec 2022
🌻 The collaborative editing software that runs Wikipedia. Mirror from https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/g/mediawiki/core. See https://mediawiki.org/wiki/Developer_access for contributing.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nicholas primarily contributed to front-end performance improvements and UI enhancements within the MediaWiki repository. They focused on adding client-side performance metrics for legacy search, including marks and measures to track loading and rendering times. They also made changes to `checkboxHack.js` to refine the space/enter key functionality, and added the icon attribute to several personal URL menu items.
wikimediaphpwikipediacollaborative-editingruns
nicholasray/dotfiles
Nov 2016 - Jun 2022
Contributions:90 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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