Rick Viscomi
Staff DevRel Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRick Viscomi is a Staff DevRel Engineer with 14 years of front-end and web performance experience, currently shaping Chrome's Core Web Vitals and developer outreach from New York. He blends hands-on UI and tooling work—contributing to projects like the widely used Web Vitals Chrome extension and WebPageTest—with developer advocacy that translates performance research into practical guidance. At Google since 2013 and a long-time HTTP Archive maintainer, he brings rare domain expertise in measuring and improving real-world web performance. Known for pragmatic JavaScript tooling (e.g., the trunk8 truncation plugin) and thoughtful UX around metrics, he turns complex telemetry into actionable developer experiences.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science at Binghamton University
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Github Skills (24)
javascript10
jquery10
browser-extension10
plugin-development10
css10
chrome-extension10
chrome-app10
web-performance10
php10
dom10
html10
web-development10
chrome-plugin10
ui-design9
html-select9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rviscomi/trunk8
Jun 2012 - Sep 2018
jQuery Truncation Plugin -- THIS PROJECT IS NO LONGER MAINTAINED
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:51 commits, 6 PRs, 7 pushes in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily contributed to the development of a jQuery plugin, named trunk8, designed to truncate text. Their work involved writing the core JavaScript logic for the plugin, including methods for initialization, updating text, and reverting. The user also created a demo file showcasing the plugin's functionality and implemented features such as dynamic width adjustments, line count modifications, and fill options. Furthermore, they refined the plugin's internal mechanisms for measuring line heights.
ellipsisjqueryjsinteropjstreetruncate
GoogleChrome/web-vitals-extension
Apr 2020 - May 2022
A Chrome extension to measure essential metrics for a healthy site
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 40 reviews, 37 commits in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Rick primarily contributed to the development of the Chrome extension's user interface. Their work includes modifying the `popup.html` and `core.css` files to implement the initial UI, adding styles, and incorporating the display of performance metrics. They also refactored code, adding new features and improving the structure of the popup, metric, and chrome related javascript files. The user's efforts focused on enhancing the visual presentation and functionality of the extension within the Chrome browser.
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