Ryan Mitts
Frontend Engineer III at Amazon
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Mitts is a Frontend Engineer III based in Vancouver with a decade of hands-on experience building user-facing web applications at scale, currently advancing frontend work at Amazon. He brings deep practical expertise in rich text editing and DOM interaction, evidenced by notable contributions to the popular Slate editor—fixing Firefox input handling, improving memoization for React performance, and enhancing copy/selection behavior. His background spans fast-paced enterprise environments from Global Relay to Amazon, grounded in a Computing Science degree from Simon Fraser University. Early leadership experience as a swing manager helped shape his pragmatic approach to shipping reliable UX-driven features and mentoring peers.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computing Science at Simon Fraser University
English
Github Skills (15)
application-framework10
editors10
app-framework10
web-framework10
javascript10
browser10
rich-text10
slate10
editor10
react10
html8
css7
typescripts6
typescript6
typescript-types6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ianstormtaylor/slate
Feb 2020 - Mar 2022
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 5 commits, 8 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan made several contributions to the Slate rich text editor framework, specifically focusing on enhancing the user experience and addressing existing issues. They fixed a bug related to input handling within void nodes in Firefox and added a new example to showcase editable void nodes. The user also addressed memoization issues in core Slate-React components for improved performance and implemented changes related to handling DOM selections during copy operations.
rich-textrichtextbrowserjavascriptrte
ryanmitts/diodehub-esp
Mar 2019 - Nov 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 24 pushes, 2 branches in 8 months
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