Steve Larson
Product Engineer at Ghost
Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteve Larson is a Product Engineer based in Madison, WI with nine years of experience building full-stack features, developer tools, and operational systems across healthcare and open-source ecosystems. At Ghost he ships MIT-licensed, community-facing features with high autonomy, and previously led release management and integration efforts for Epic’s healthcare customers, bridging executive roadmaps to technical delivery. He contributes front-end fixes to high-profile projects like Facebook’s Lexical editor, improving selection, paste, and menu positioning to sharpen core UX reliability. Steve’s background in chemistry research and nonprofit founding gives him a data-driven, experimental approach to product problems and a habit of turning complex technical constraints into practical, user-focused solutions.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Organic Chemistry, Master of Science (M.S.), Organic Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-MadisonBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Chemistry at Macalester College
Spanish
Github Skills (11)
javascript10
user-interface10
text-editor10
editor10
graphical-user-interface10
react10
human-interface10
e2e-testing9
e2e9
testing9
e2e-test9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/lexical
May 2023 - Feb 2024
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 8 PRs, 38 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Steve primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the Lexical text editor framework. Their work included fixing bugs related to selection behavior and pasting decorator nodes. Additionally, the user improved the positioning of the LexicalMenu relative to text and addressed an issue with deleting link node text on linebreaks. The contributions demonstrate a focus on improving the core user experience and functionality of the editor.
contenteditableexcellentwysiwygrich-text-editorperformance
9larsons/Ghost
Jul 2022 - Aug 2024
Turn your audience into a business. Publishing, memberships, subscriptions and newsletters.
Contributions:77 pushes, 23 branches in 2 years 1 month
cmsmembershipspublishingnewslettersweb-app
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