Rudd Fawcett is a Yale freshman and Co-Founder with 13 years of hands-on product, design, and engineering experience across startups and major tech firms. He has shipped user-facing prototypes and growth features at Snap and built CarPlay prototypes at Apple, while founding and leading product efforts at Lost Farm and Atma Sciences. A designer-engineer hybrid, Rudd authors polished iOS work such as a themeable markdown editor on GitHub where he handled theming, UX edge cases, and build/distribution tweaks. Based in New York, he blends graphic design training with computer science rigor to move ideas from concept to production. Notably, he pairs a youthful academic path with mature industry impact, often tackling both front-end UX details and underlying build systems.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A. Art (Graphic Design) B.S. Computer Science, B.A. Art (Graphic Design) B.S. Computer Science at Yale University
[iOS] A fully themeable markdown editor with live syntax highlighting.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Contributions:10 releases, 52 commits, 28 PRs in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rudd primarily focused on developing features and making improvements to an iOS markdown editor application. They added theming capabilities, including custom regex rules, and also addressed user experience issues like resizing the editor on rotation. The user also made modifications for CocoaPods compatibility and framework building, suggesting involvement in the project's build and distribution processes. Their work involved editing the core `Notepad` class, `Theme`, `Storage`, `Element`, and `Extensions` files.
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