Rico Kahler
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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RockstarRico Kahler is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building consumer-facing websites, apps, and developer tools, currently working at Sanity after a frontend role at Amazon. He specializes in React and tooling for the front end, with deep focus on UX, developer experience, performance, accessibility, and SEO, and frequently ships serverless architectures on platforms like Vercel. Rico is an active open-source contributor to Next.js-adjacent tooling and Sanity Studio, where he’s made full-stack improvements to packages like @sanity/client and @sanity/base, adding preview capabilities and ACL refinements. Based in Chicago, he pairs hands-on implementation with a history of mentoring and internal tooling (e.g., hooks-based data libraries), making him as comfortable optimizing developer workflows as he is crafting polished user interfaces.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (27)
cms10
javascript10
typescript10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
react10
headlessui9
es6-promise9
post9
web-components9
headless-browser9
headless-cms9
front-end-development9
setstate9
nodejs9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sanity-io/sanity
May 2021 - Jun 2022
Sanity Studio – Rapidly configure content workspaces powered by structured content
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:40 releases, 392 reviews, 195 commits in 1 year
Contributions summary:Rico primarily contributed to the Sanity Studio project, working on both the frontend and backend aspects of the application. They refactored and implemented changes to the client-side code for the `@sanity/client` and `@sanity/base` packages, including making project IDs optional and updating ACL endpoints. Further contributions include adding preview overrides and managing document references within the form builder, with the addition of test files to verify and expand these features.
sanitycmsheadlessreactjsreact
MPlan/mplan
Dec 2017 - Sep 2018
a degree planner made by students for students
Contributions:2 releases, 633 commits, 6 PRs in 9 months
cssplanner
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