Riley Tomasek
Founder, CEO at Bright Side
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRiley Tomasek is a founder and CEO with 11 years of engineering experience who designs simple, focused products that delight users, currently leading agentic RAG startup Dexa AI and autonomous engineering studio Charlie from New York. A double major in Mathematics and Computer Science from UBC, Riley began in frontend and full-stack roles at companies like INDOCHINO, Prism, and Dropbox—contributing to the official Dropbox JavaScript SDK by adding testing, legacy browser polyfills, JSDoc, and cookie-based auth support. He co-founded Flight Labs, which was acquired by Figma, and now advises on influencer-graph machine learning at Bright Side, blending product instincts with applied ML. Riley pairs hands-on engineering with company-building, often turning complex retrieval and scale problems into elegant, production-ready solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Computer Science (double major), Mathematics and Computer Science (double major) at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (13)
uitest10
javascript10
nodejs10
api10
sdk10
sinon10
apidoc10
ui-testing10
dropbox10
testing10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
dropbox/dropbox-sdk-js
Apr 2016 - Feb 2017
The Official Dropbox API V2 SDK for Javascript
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:132 commits, 14 PRs, 44 pushes in 10 months
Contributions summary:Riley primarily contributed to the development of the Dropbox JavaScript SDK by implementing features across the codebase. They set up initial testing structures and added polyfills for legacy browsers. Further contributions included adding JSDocs from website documentation, fixing examples, and refactoring the codebase by moving endpoint methods to their own file. Finally, they implemented features to support cookie-based authentication and allow for the setting of custom base URLs.
dropboxapidropbox-sdkdropbox-javascript-sdknode-js
dexaai/dexter
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
LLM tools used in production at Dexa
Contributions:21 releases, 52 reviews, 43 PRs in 1 year 2 months
llmsopenairag
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