Ricky Vetter
Software Engineer at Jane Street
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRicky Vetter is a software engineer with 12 years of experience building polished front-ends and resilient back-end tools, currently contributing at Jane Street from New York. He spent seven years at Facebook as a front-end engineer and has recent experience at Uber on sustainability-focused infrastructure, demonstrating comfort with both consumer-scale UIs and mission-driven platform work. Ricky is an active open-source contributor in the ReasonML and Docusaurus ecosystems, where he has improved documentation tooling, internationalization, mobile UX, and browser-compatible regex handling—work that influenced widely used projects like reason-react and Docusaurus. He combines practical UX sensibilities (SVG/WebGL real-time diagramming and responsive docs) with low-level code hygiene (AST pretty-printing and dependency refactors). Notably, his contributions show a habit of improving both developer experience and end-user interfaces, from config flags to accessibility fixes. With a background in psychology, he brings an emphasis on clarity and usability to engineering decisions.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Regis Jesuit High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Psychology at Loyola University of Chicago
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Github Skills (21)
programming-language10
javascript10
website-development10
css10
reasonml10
ocaml10
regular-expression10
front-end-development10
docusaurus10
website-design10
react10
responsive-design9
documentation9
code-formatting8
user-interface8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
reasonml/reasonml.github.io
Aug 2017 - May 2020
Reason's documentation site
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:261 commits, 16 PRs, 29 pushes in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ricky contributed significantly to the documentation site's front-end. They implemented a companies page showcasing ReasonML users, adding company logos and links. The user also worked on improving the language picker component and added a button to view documentation in an older syntax version. Furthermore, they focused on styling improvements, particularly for mobile view and the banner for older syntax, enhancing the overall user experience.
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reasonml/reason-react
Jun 2017 - Jun 2020
Reason bindings for ReactJS
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 509 commits, 150 PRs in 3 years
Contributions summary:Ricky primarily contributed to the development of the ReasonReact-based user interface by adding features such as user-defined shouldUpdate support, and integrating Docusaurus for documentation and website development. They made significant changes to the website's codebase, including updates to the index page, footer, and custom CSS. Furthermore, the user was involved in adapting the website for internationalization and addressing mobile display issues.
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