Ricky Zein
Software Engineer at Figma
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRicky Zein is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable web applications and shaping engineering teams across startups and product-led companies. Currently on Figma’s Enterprise team, he focuses on enabling organizations to get the most from collaborative design at scale. Previously he was CTO/co-founder at Bento where he wrote the initial codebase and led the technical build that landed early customers and a YC-backed seed round, and as Staff Engineer at Lattice he helped grow the engineering org from a handful to ~50 while architecting core products and platform services. He brings full-stack fluency—TypeScript/React, Node, GraphQL, Postgres and cloud-native tooling—and a track record of owning both code and developer experience improvements. A mentor at heart, he routinely invests in team processes, monitoring, and tooling that improve robustness and developer productivity. Based in New York, he pairs startup grit with enterprise sensibilities, often favoring pragmatic architectures that scale operationally as teams grow.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Anthropology Global Development Studies, B.A. Anthropology Global Development Studies at University of Virginia
English, Indonesian
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Github Skills (15)
activerecord6
javascript6
attribute6
backbonejs6
mysql6
ruby-on-rails6
csv-parser5
csv-reader5
parser4
csv4
csv-parsing4
parsing4
react3
probot2
github1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rrzein/dotfiles
Jul 2015 - Nov 2021
Contributions:21 pushes in 6 years 4 months
rrzein/AppAcademy
May 2013 - May 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 11 months
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