Nico Chaves
Staff Software Engineer at Ridgeline
United States
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Top SchoolNico Chaves is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building reliable web and front-end systems, currently leading engineering efforts at Ridgeline. He holds a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and a BS from UCLA, blending rigorous academic training with hands-on product delivery across startups and mid-stage companies. Nico has progressed from intern to Head of Engineering at HomeWiseDocs, later contributing senior engineering velocity at Skiff and Oscilar before his current role. An active open-source contributor, he has improved TypeScript typings and API consistency in the widely used Material-UI React library, highlighting a focus on developer ergonomics and type safety. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with deep front-end expertise and a physics-rooted problem-solving mindset from early research and lab experience. Colleagues describe him as a steady technical leader who turns subtle API and typing issues into long-term maintainability wins.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at De La SalleUniversity of California, Los AngelesMaster's Degree Electrical Engineering, Master's Degree Electrical Engineering at Stanford University
English
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Github Skills (9)
material-design10
typescript10
typescripts10
react10
typescript-types10
react-component9
system-design9
react-components9
system9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mui/material-ui
Jan 2018 - Aug 2018
Material UI: Comprehensive React component library that implements Google's Material Design. Free forever.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Nico contributed to the Material UI React component library by addressing TypeScript-related issues and improving the component definitions. Their work involved adding inline styles to the transition component, making select's `onChange` prop optional, and fixing TypeScript definitions for class keys in the Grid component. Additionally, they corrected Snackbar anchorOrigin types and set a default for withStyles' Options generic, indicating a focus on type safety and API consistency.
reactmuimaterialjavascriptmaterial-design
nmchaves/image-captioning
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:79 commits, 62 PRs, 83 pushes in 1 month
pytorchlabel-objectsarxivabsdeep-learning
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