About

I’m Ray. Software engineer in New York. CS degree from Long Island University (2016), 12+ years of freelance, open source, client work, and a company I co-founded.

Started by reverse engineering APIs, scraping large datasets, and working backward from how systems behaved to figure out how they were built. I still debug the same way. Start from the outside, work in.

Co-founded Artistic Distributions with Kai, where we built headless Shopify storefronts handling thousands of concurrent buyers with bot protection, AR experiences in Swift, and ran collaborations with Nike, Adidas, Converse, NTWRK, and Beyond The Streets. One charity print drop raised over $80K in 24 hours.

When LLM APIs started launching in late 2023, I shipped 7 API client libraries in 10 months. First to publish wrappers for Gemini and Grok. 280+ combined stars. That work moved me from Python to TypeScript full-time.

Now I write TypeScript across the full stack. Tauri desktop apps, Convex components, Claude Code plugins, SaaS starters, mobile component libraries.

What I Do

• If I do something twice, I write a script.
• Every tool I build goes public. 36 repos and counting.
• Keyboard over mouse. Terminal over GUI.
• I read source code and submit fixes when I find problems.

Let’s Build

Questions, bugs, or ideas? Reach me at hello@ramonclaudio.com. Find my work on GitHub. Follow the stream of consciousness on X.

For the full story, see my resume.

- Ray