Brian Vaughn
Software Engineer at Citadel
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Vaughn is a New York–based software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently at Citadel, who specializes in building developer tools and productivity-focused front-end libraries. He spent years on the React core team at Facebook where he led developer tooling and helped build and maintain React DevTools — a tool used by millions weekly. His open-source work spans front-end performance and virtualization (react-window, react-virtualized), client-side search with TF-IDF and custom indexing (js-search), codemods, and documentation/site tooling (Gatsby, Babel). He pairs big‑tech scale experience with startup pragmatism from roles at Replay.io, Google and as a former director at Rosetta Stone. A practical tinkerer, he routinely delivers polished demos, accessibility improvements, and small utilities that noticeably boost engineers’ day‑to‑day productivity.
12 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Digital & Interactive Media, Graphic Design, Computer Science, Art, Digital & Interactive Media, Graphic Design, Computer Science, Art at James Madison University
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Github Skills (85)
documentations10
flow-control10
ui-components10
testing10
interface-design10
web-development10
javascript10
component-development10
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front-end-development10
virtualization10
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typescripts10
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
bvaughn/js-search
Jul 2015 - May 2019
JS Search is an efficient, client-side search library for JavaScript and JSON objects
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:101 commits, 25 PRs, 107 pushes in 3 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the development of the JS Search library, focusing on enhancing its functionality and usability. Their work involved refactoring the core code, adding features like nested property indexing and TF-IDF, and creating new indexing strategies and sanitizers. They also improved the library by adding documentation and demo files, along with related tests.
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bvaughn/react-virtualized
Nov 2015 - Apr 2018
React components for efficiently rendering large lists and tabular data
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 1346 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian's commits primarily focus on enhancing the user interface of the React virtualized project. They modified CSS modules, simplified class names, and made adjustments to the display and appearance of demo elements. Additionally, the user contributed by adding properties, testing, and expanding the available properties of grid and list components.
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