Ry Racherbaumer
Staff Software Engineer at Ephemera
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRy Racherbaumer is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of professional experience and more than 20 years building for the web, now focused on TypeScript, React, design systems, build systems, and observability. He’s driven developer experience improvements across startups and scale-ups—shaping interview/onboarding flows at Brex and modernizing UI frameworks and build pipelines at companies like Illumio. At Ephemera he combines TypeScript, Node, React and Rust to push messaging product engineering forward, while contributing to prominent open-source tooling such as Lerna (improving bootstrapping, symlinks, and binary handling). Based in New Orleans, he balances deep front-end craft with systems-level thinking around builds and developer workflows, and has a pattern of turning large legacy codebases into modern, testable, fast-moving platforms.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Web Development, Bachelor of Arts (BA) Web Development at Tulane University
Github Skills (14)
monorepo10
lerna10
typescript10
javascript10
filesystem10
typescripts10
nodejs10
npm10
file-operations10
fileio10
typescript-types10
cli9
command-line9
command-line-interface9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
lerna/lerna
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Lerna is a fast, modern build system for managing and publishing multiple JavaScript/TypeScript packages from the same repository.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 9 PRs, 151 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ry made significant contributions to the Lerna project, focusing on enhancing the bootstrapping process. They implemented features like the `--ignore` flag to exclude packages during bootstrapping and incorporated handling for packages containing binaries. Furthermore, they improved the build process by ensuring symlinking of packages and binaries within the project's structure. They also addressed several bugs, including logging stdout errors.
monorepopublishingdragoneslinttypescript-packages
rygine/looper
Jan 2013 - Apr 2019
Contributions:41 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
no-codingslidercarouselintuitive
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