Rikki Schulte
Open Source Developer at GraphQL Foundation
Cleveland, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRikki Schulte is an open source developer and full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript engineer with over a decade of professional experience building scalable web and microservices platforms. She leads the official GraphQL developer ecosystem (GraphiQL, GraphQL LSP, vscode-graphql) and routinely contributes UI and integration improvements to high-profile GraphQL projects like GraphiQL and GraphQL Playground. Rikki combines deep frontend expertise (React, Next.js, PWAs, testing/visual diffs) with backend and cloud-native chops (Node.js, Postgres/PostGIS, Kubernetes, Kafka, gRPC), having architected platforms used by hundreds of engineers at enterprises such as Hilton and impactful climate-tech work like Recarb’s global carbon sequestration modeling. Comfortable in distributed teams and cross-domain industries from healthcare to fintech, she also builds devops toolchains, QA pipelines, and release automation end-to-end. Based in Cleveland, she’s available for consulting and brings a rare mix of long-term open-source stewardship and hands-on production delivery.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Anthropology at The University of AkronUniversity of Missouri
English, Portuguese
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Github Skills (32)
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
typescript10
wpgraphql10
api10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
nodejs10
typescripts10
react10
monaco-editor9
hapi9
koa9
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
graphql/graphiql
May 2019 - Jan 2023
GraphiQL & the GraphQL LSP Reference Ecosystem for building browser & IDE tools.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:835 releases, 502 reviews, 639 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Rikki primarily contributed to the `graphiql/graphiql` repository, focused on enhancing the user interface and improving its integration capabilities with various technologies. Their work included upgrading dependencies like Prettier and Babel, along with refactoring and improving code organization. The user demonstrated a deep understanding of the codebase by making changes to core components and implementing functionalities such as the integration of external fragments and support for features like `@stream` and `@defer` for GraphQL operations.
browservscodeide-toolslsp-serverbrowser-ide
graphql/swapi-graphql
Jun 2019 - Feb 2022
A GraphQL schema and server wrapping SWAPI.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 29 commits, 59 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rikki primarily focused on updating the data source and API for the SWAPI GraphQL project. They added a new REST-based data source and made changes to fetch and process data, likely to improve the functionality and maintainability of the GraphQL schema. Additionally, the user addressed issues with the data source URLs and the public facing demo. They also upgraded the react version for the demo site and enabled CORS on the service.
swapiwrappingswapi-graphqlgraphqlgraphql-schema
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