Raymond May
Software Engineer at GitHub
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRaymond May is a seasoned software engineer with 15+ years building and shipping cross-platform consumer products, from Wunderlist at 6Wunderkinder through To Do and Sticky Notes at Microsoft and now GitHub. Trained as a pianist and early coder on the Commodore 64, he blends a musician’s attention to detail with deep full‑stack expertise in TypeScript, Kotlin, Swift, Rust and service-side languages. He’s known for closing product parity gaps, leading sync and backend quality for large-scale task services, and acting as the integration liaison between platform teams and AI partners. A hands-on principal/staff engineer who still writes production code, he also drives systemic improvements as a technical lead and on-call reliability engineer. His long-standing interest in testing and edge-case QA shows up in open-source contributions, including improving critical Underscore.js utility tests. Based in Berlin, he brings a rare combination of product intuition, systems design, and creative technical curiosity.
15 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Music, Piano Performance, Composition, Electroacoustic, Bachelor of Music, Piano Performance, Composition, Electroacoustic at Western Washington University
English, German, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
unit-testing10
javascript10
testing10
underscorejs10
underscore10
lodash10
test-automation10
go-modules9
kernel-module9
jsmodules9
utilities8
cart6
image-size6
wordpress6
css6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jashkenas/underscore
Mar 2012 - Mar 2012
JavaScript's utility _ belt
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:9 commits in 7 days
Contributions summary:Raymond primarily focused on testing and improving the functionality of the `_.size` and `_.isFinite` functions within the Underscore.js library. They implemented new test cases, including edge cases like NaN and Number instances, and made corrections to existing tests. Their contributions ensured the correctness and reliability of these utility functions by validating various input scenarios.
beltjavascripttypescript
octatone/gif-delayer-firefox
Nov 2013 - Mar 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 1 tag in 1 year 3 months
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