Rick Waldron
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Rick Waldron is an engineering leader and hands-on software engineer with 16 years of experience mentoring teams and delivering consulting work for clients ranging from Google, Apple, and Microsoft to Mozilla, Facebook, and MIT labs. He blends front-end, back-end, and embedded/IoT expertise—contributing to prominent open-source projects like jQuery, Babel, Espruino, and the Moddable SDK—while improving test suites and developer tooling across the JavaScript ecosystem. Comfortable shipping low-level changes (tokenizers, interpreters, drivers) as well as UI and build-system improvements, he emphasizes code quality, testing, and performance. Based in Boston, he pairs long-form technical edits (ECMAScript specs and Test262) with practical driver and firmware work for microcontrollers. Colleagues know him for balancing leadership and deep technical contributions on high-profile projects, often surfacing subtle correctness and tooling improvements that prevent downstream bugs.
16 years of coding experience
Associate of Science, Information Technology, Internet Communications Technology, Associate of Science, Information Technology, Internet Communications Technology at Massachusetts Communications College
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Github Skills (82)
firmata10
jquery-mobile10
compiler-development10
testing10
jshint10
c1110
digital-logic10
c1710
code-analysis10
qunit10
embedded10
webextension10
markdown10
javascript10
jquery10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
firmata/firmata.js
Jul 2012 - Nov 2020
JavaScript implementation of the Firmata protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 releases, 1 review, 303 commits in 8 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Firmata.js library. They implemented support for multi-byte buffers, which involved modifying the data handling within the library to parse and process incoming serial data, including MIDI and Sysex commands. The user's work extended the analog output functionality, enabling the support of extended analog pins and testing their implementations.
javascriptblockchainfirmata
rwaldron/tc39-notes
Sep 2012 - Nov 2019
TC39 Meeting Notes
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:237 commits, 80 PRs, 213 pushes in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily focused on enhancing the presentation and structure of the TC39 meeting notes. They implemented syntax highlighting, added a "Back" button for navigation, and improved the table of contents generation. Furthermore, they addressed styling aspects with the addition of CSS for markdown rendering and added a favicon for improved visual identity. They also updated file paths for internal linking.
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