Ray Deck
Group Mentor at Statechange.ai
Burke, Vermont, United States
Summary
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SeniorRay Deck is a seasoned technology leader and founder with two decades around startups and software and over a decade of hands-on leadership as CTO and business owner. Based in Burke, Vermont, he currently advises and mentors engineering teams at Statechange.ai while running Sustained Ventures and serving as CTO of Element55, blending strategic product vision with day-to-day technical execution. Ray prioritizes developing people over code—mentoring engineers to scale themselves and organizations—yet remains an active contributor to open-source front-end tooling, notably improving flexibility and typing in the popular react-toastify library. His background combines entrepreneurial grit, long-term company stewardship since 2003, and a practical focus on shipping usable, extensible UI components and developer-friendly APIs.
11 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
26reputation
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Github Skills (11)
javascript10
react10
typescript-types9
react-component9
typescript9
react-components9
typescripts9
css9
generics6
typescript-generics6
type-inference6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
fkhadra/react-toastify
Oct 2020 - Oct 2020
React notification made easy 🚀 !
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 15 commits, 1 PR in 7 days
Contributions summary:Ray primarily focused on enhancing the `react-toastify` library's flexibility and functionality. They implemented a functional form for the `className` prop, enabling more dynamic styling. Further improvements included adding support for position and RTL arguments within the functional `className` form and refining the typing to better differentiate class name types, increasing the library's usability and customization options. Their contributions span across multiple components like `ToastContainer`, `Toast`, and `ProgressBar`.
react-componentreactjavascriptnotificationsnotification
rhdeck/react-native-swift
Oct 2017 - Mar 2020
Add support for swift static libraries to React Native-built apps
Contributions:80 commits, 50 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
react-nativereactswiftios
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