Ricky Chilcott
Athens, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRicky Chilcott is a founder and full‑stack Ruby on Rails developer with 15 years of experience building product-focused web applications and platforms. He currently leads Stoked, a brand-advocate SaaS that turns satisfied customers into peer-to-peer advocates for considered purchases, while also co-founding consultancies and nonprofit strategy ventures like Rakefire, Mission Met, and Causey. Ricky blends hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source Rails projects and improving test infrastructure for well-used libraries—with strategy-minded product development and early-stage sales. His background includes managing complex technical operations at Ohio University, where he oversaw large labs, budgets, and media facilities, which informs his practical approach to scaling teams and systems. He’s passionate about tooling that empowers people and sustainable, community-driven growth, and often pairs technical fixes with thoughtful UX and operational improvements. Based in Athens, Ohio, he’s equally comfortable shipping Rails features as he is interviewing customers to validate product-market fit.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Arts in Communication, Media Managment, Media Marketing, Master of Arts in Communication, Media Managment, Media Marketing at Ohio University
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (16)
ruby10
test-automation10
html10
uid10
ruby-rails10
rails10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
ruby-on-rails10
testing10
admin9
viewcomponent9
dashboard9
open-source8
captcha8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
avo-hq/avo
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Build Ruby on Rails apps 10x faster
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 9 commits, 12 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ricky contributed to the Avo framework by implementing new features and addressing bugs. They focused on enhancing the functionality of UI components like `NavigationLinkComponent`, `Date/DateTime` fields, and `ReadOnly` functionality. Additionally, the user fixed issues related to supporting older versions of dependencies and updated code to align with Rails 7 deprecation warnings, improving the framework's overall stability and maintainability.
ruby-on-railsadminrailsrails-applicationhotel-booking
ambethia/recaptcha
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
ReCaptcha helpers for ruby apps
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 3 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ricky primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure for the ReCaptcha helper library. They added a new test case and modified existing ones to ensure functionality, particularly around the rendering of the ReCaptcha tags under various conditions, including test mode. The user also renamed a test for clarity and made it less brittle, demonstrating a focus on the robustness of the test suite. Their commits showcase a solid understanding of testing practices within the context of a Ruby-based web application using reCaptcha.
sinatrarecaptcharailsmongoidruby
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