Rick Sullivan
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Sullivan is a Principal Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 13 years of full‑stack experience building reliable web platforms across Elixir/Phoenix, Ruby on Rails, and React, and familiarity with Java and Python. At Microsoft he combines hands‑on coding with architecture and mentorship, having progressed from senior roles into principal responsibilities. He contributes to influential open‑source tooling, notably improving Ruby formatting logic in the popular prettier/plugin-ruby repository to handle tricky conditional and escaped‑character cases. Known for pragmatic problem solving, Rick has a history of shipping end‑to‑end features and infrastructure—everything from Solr search integrations and CI/CD automation to modern frontend/back‑end stacks. His background pairs formal CS training from Santa Clara University with a persistent curiosity for language and formatting edge cases that often hide production bugs.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, minor in Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Engineering, minor in Mathematics at Santa Clara University-School of EngineeringCentral Catholic High School
Github Skills (6)
pretier10
prettify10
conditional-statements10
code-formatting10
ruby10
testing9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
prettier/plugin-ruby
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Prettier Ruby Plugin
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 3 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Rick primarily contributed to the `prettier/plugin-ruby` repository by implementing and refining the Ruby formatting logic. Their work involved addressing bugs related to conditional expressions, ternary operations, and array formatting within the Prettier plugin. The user also worked on preventing certain transformations and conversions, specifically for command calls and escaped characters. Overall, their efforts focused on improving the correctness and robustness of the Ruby code formatting capabilities.
beautifierrubyprettier-pluginformatterprettier
rsullivan00/dotfiles
Oct 2016 - Jun 2021
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
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