Zach Schneider
Software Engineer at stripe
Saint Louis, United States
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RockstarZach Schneider is a software engineer with 13 years of experience based in St. Louis and currently engineering at Stripe. He spans the full stack with a strong focus on Ruby/Rails and React/React Native, delivering both backend logic and polished front-end experiences. Zach is an active open-source contributor—his work on projects like Slate, Dentaku, and Ghost ranges from refactoring HTML serialization and swapping in parse5 to fixing tricky unary-minus parsing bugs and improving markdown/tagging flows. He has a knack for tackling parser and serialization edge cases that break integrations, and for turning subtle bug fixes into more robust, maintainable systems.
13 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (47)
calculator10
application-framework10
editors10
git10
formula10
debug10
javascript10
node-js10
rich-text10
web-frameworks10
testing10
app-framework10
browser10
ghost10
editor10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
ianstormtaylor/slate
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
A completely customizable framework for building rich text editors. (Currently in beta.)
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 30 PRs, 10 pushes in 1 year
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on improving the Slate rich text editor framework. Their contributions involved refactoring the HTML serializer, including replacing the HTML parser with parse5, addressing inconsistencies between different parsers, and adding crucial features such as DOM parser options and cruft removal. They also updated examples and tests to align with changes in the underlying parsing and serialization logic, ensuring that the Slate editor maintains accurate HTML handling. The user's work also included adjustments to the code highlighting example and webpack configuration improvements for the project.
rich-textrichtextbrowserjavascriptrte
rubysolo/dentaku
Dec 2014 - Jan 2015
math and logic formula parser and evaluator
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 1 PR in 1 month
Contributions summary:Zach primarily focused on fixing bugs and improving the functionality of the Dentaku formula parser and evaluator. Their contributions included correcting the unary minus operator's recognition, resolving issues with negative exponents, and correctly binding the unary minus operator in multiplication and division. They also updated the library's version number and modified tests and code to accommodate these changes.
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