Raymond Ha
Software Engineer at Rippling
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRaymond Ha is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building accessible, internationalized front-end experiences and developer tooling at companies like Google, Facebook, DoorDash, and now Rippling. He specializes in HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript, and has driven migrations to TypeScript and React Hooks while improving testing, documentation, and developer experience. Raymond has a track record of shipping consumer-facing features—such as an interactive photo module on Google Search with a 20% interaction rate—and architecting reusable component libraries and ESLint rules for large teams. He contributes to notable open-source projects, improving syntax highlighting in the widely used nvim-treesitter and enhancing front-end behaviors in Reddit Enhancement Suite. Comfortable across the full stack, he pairs pragmatic engineering with advocacy for accessibility, i18n, and performance. His background from Waterloo and early work in game-like HTML5 interfaces reveal a practical blend of computer science foundations and creative front-end craftsmanship.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
School Diploma, School Diploma at Woodlands Secondary School 2006 - 2010Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
tree-sitter10
firefox-webextension10
browser-extension10
typescript10
user-interface10
firefox-addon10
chrome-extension10
neovim10
google-chrome-extension10
typescript-types10
webextension10
typescripts10
syntax-highlighting10
ecmascript10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
honestbleeps/Reddit-Enhancement-Suite
Apr 2014 - Jun 2015
Reddit Enhancement Suite
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Raymond primarily contributed to improving the Reddit Enhancement Suite's front-end functionality and user experience. Their commits focused on fixing image-related issues, such as resizing and movement while loading, duplicate imgur expando issues, and video pausing behavior. They also addressed UI elements such as the account switcher overlay and the navTop component. The user made improvements across several core modules of the extension, enhancing usability.
redditchrome-extensionfirefox-addonfirefox-extensionedge-extension
nvim-treesitter/nvim-treesitter
Nov 2022 - Dec 2022
Nvim Treesitter configurations and abstraction layer
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 1 comment in 13 days
Contributions summary:Raymond primarily contributed to the `nvim-treesitter` project by adding features and fixing bugs related to highlighting in different languages. Their work involved modifying queries and tests to improve the accuracy and coverage of syntax highlighting rules. Specifically, they implemented the "satisfies" keyword highlighting in TypeScript, refined "as" expression highlighting, and corrected indentations in the ECMAScript queries. Additionally, they made a change related to the test output summary.
nvimtree-sitterneovimnvim-treesitter
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