Tyler Bainbridge
Founder at Perfectly Imperfect / PI.FYI
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolTyler Bainbridge is a founder and seasoned software engineer with a decade of experience building product-first web and mobile applications from idea to scale. Based in New York, he started and led multiple startups—including Perfectly Imperfect, a social magazine reaching hundreds of thousands of readers and tens of thousands of app users—and previously served as senior engineer on rich-text open source at Facebook. He brings deep front-end expertise (React, rich text editors) and full-stack production experience (GraphQL, Node, PostgreSQL, Kubernetes) from roles that included scaling sync pipelines to 100k+ jobs per day. As a Lexical contributor he improved editor reliability and table interaction behaviors, reflecting a focus on accessibility and small-but-impactful UX details. Known for combining product intuition with hands-on engineering, he also builds small experimental products (Roomio, Prism) that surface his interest in real-time systems and human curation.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Masconomet Regional High SchoolUMass Lowell
English
Stackoverflow
249reputation
44kreached
1answer
4questions
Github Skills (15)
datatables10
lexical10
javascript10
react10
temp-tables10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
unit-testing9
json6
babeljs6
graphql6
netbeans6
lwip6
http-request6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/lexical
Nov 2021 - Dec 2022
Lexical is an extensible text editor framework that provides excellent reliability, accessibility and performance.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 146 reviews, 92 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tyler primarily contributed to the development and improvement of the Lexical text editor framework. Their commits focused on enhancing the `isSelected()` method within the `OutlineNode` class, writing unit tests to ensure its correct functionality, and expanding the capabilities of the editor's table feature. They also added functionality for table selections and implemented support for keyboard navigation within tables.
contenteditableexcellentwysiwygrich-text-editorperformance
tylerjbainbridge/buddy-bot
Dec 2019 - Sep 2021
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Contributions:4 PRs, 269 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 9 months
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