About

I’ve been building out of New York since 2013. Started by reverse engineering APIs and scraping datasets with Python, figuring out how things worked by poking at them from the outside. I still debug the same way.

I’ve been collecting art since 2015. Got to work with a lot of artists I admired along the way and ended up with a collection I’m proud of. By 2021 the art world had pulled me back into building. I started solving problems I was personally running into, and the AI wave hit right around then. Been shipping open source ever since.

That era pulled me from Python to TypeScript full-time. Zed for the editor, Ghostty for the terminal. Most of the work is TypeScript, and most of that is developer tools: CLIs, scaffolders, a Tauri menubar GitHub dashboard. Plus Expo mobile apps and Convex components. Just shipped seetree, written in Zig, and I’m pulling together a big Bun monorepo with a bunch of apps in it. If I do something twice I write a script. Every tool I build goes public, 53 and counting.

When I hit a bug in a dep, I don’t just fix it locally. I open the upstream PR and drop a patch in ramonclaudio/patches so my projects, and anyone else hitting the same bug, can ship without waiting for the merge to land. 70 patches across Bun, npm, pnpm, and Yarn. When the release lands, I bump the dep and delete the patch. A lot of those are tooling fixes: a lockfile that came out different every run in Bun’s installer, broken CI config, Xcode build warnings baked into podspecs. Most of that work has been in expo/expo lately, the bulk of it in @expo/ui, with fixes reaching into React Native core and Hermes when the bug lives deeper. I’ve been chipping away at the Swift side because I want my Expo apps to use real SwiftUI components, not the CSS-like wrappers that other libraries layer on top.

I have a CS degree from Long Island University (2016), but most of what I actually know came from building things, breaking them, and reading other people’s code.

hello@ramonclaudio.com / GitHub / X / resume

- Ray