Thomas Lombart

Improving and growing Raycast’s extensions ecosystem.

• Converted 5 native Raycast extensions to open-source React extensions such as GitHub, Linear, Google Workspace, Zoom, or Asana
• Worked with best practices in mind (caching, optimistic updates, etc.) since performance and great user experience are critical for extensions

• Led a design system used across 10+ teams for a total of 25+ developers. Structured the technical team and set up the tools to ensure a great collaboration.
• Improved and maintained more than 40 components with documentation, accessibility, and performance constraints.
• Revamped the design tokens to support theming unlocking projects such as dark mode and white label.

• Created features allowing the sellers on Back Market to successfully grow such as an onboarding tool reducing the time to open a country from 2 hours to 5 minutes.
• Improved codebase standardization by writing RFCs, and getting involved in API design for various endpoints.
• Onboarded and trained a front-end developer on the technical stack in under 2 months.

• Refactored an SMS marketing tool for Mindbaz written in React. Reduced the number of code lines by 61%. Optimized the global performance by reducing the main bundle size by 58%.
• Revamped a mail statistics visualization tool for Mindbaz. Reduced technical debt and improved code quality by migrating the whole tool to React and TypeScript.
• Created a chatbot focused on sports practice with Dialogflow and Node.js for Decathlon. Used 4 different APIs to give users the best results based on their intents.

• Improved a progressive web app written with Vue.js allowing users to manage their homes. Implemented pixel-perfect mockups into real features.
• Created new endpoints on the backend with Node.js.

• Created Raycast extensions like Todoist who got featured on Raycast Store’s homepage.
• Helped with the creation and maintenance of an ESLint plugin for Testing Library that is now downloaded 3 million times a week.
• Contributed to various popular projects such as Airbnb's internationalization library, Testing Library, Jest community, or freeCodeCamp.

• Wrote 25+ articles on various topics for developers such as productivity, React, or JavaScript.
• Reached 40K+ views in total
• Two article examples: How to Suck Less at Colors as a Developer and The Complete Beginner’s Guide to Testing React Apps