# Rico Kahler

> Software Engineer, DX & Platform Tooling

Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rico

Hi there 👋

My name is Rico Kahler (he/him) and I build consumer-facing websites and apps as well as developer-facing tools.

I care deeply about UX, DX, performance, a11y, and SEO. I specialize in the tooling + React space of the front end and also work with serverless architectures and infrastructures using platforms like Vercel and frameworks like Serverless.

Most of my open-source these days revolves around Next.js and Sanity.

Checkout my projects on GithHub: https://github.com/ricokahler

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Sanity
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Senior Front End Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Detroit, Michigan, United States

### Senior Frontend Developer @ Sanity.io
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote

### Senior Frontend Developer @ Bloomscape
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Detroit, Michigan

### Software Developer 2 @ Sift
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Detroit Area
- Engineered an interactive Org Chart with React, D3, and SVGs
- Architected and built a configurable user profile
- Created a hooks-based data-fetching and state management library for internal team members: https://resift.org
- Mentored other team members in React and TypeScript

### Frontend Engineering Intern @ Sift
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Detroit

### Frontend Engineering Intern @ Amrock
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Detroit Area
Responsible for creating and testing components and services using Angular 4+, Typescript, and Jasmine. 95% code coverage required.

### Full Stack Developer - EID Intern @ GE Digital
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Metro Detroit
Lead full stack development training session: https://goo.gl/2xjvFA
Lead “How to set up your data for reuse: the semantic web”: https://goo.gl/67sxz2
Built RDF/OWL ontology creation tool
Built 2 metrics dashboards with Tableau and integrated them into an application
Created Java library to dynamically create and convert HTML Spring templates to PDFs using PhantomJS
Worked on team of developers to create backend for organization chart application using the Spring framework
Created printable PDF view of organization chart using iText library

### Data Reporting and Data Analyst - EID Intern @ GE Power
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | 1 Village Center Dr. Van Buren Township, MI 48111
Conducted data analysis on Tableau database and created SQL query for reports
Created reports and dashboards on server extracts using Tableau

### ETL Developer and Data Analyst - EID Intern @ GE Capital
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | 1 Village Center Dr. Van Buren Township, MI 48111
Developed Informatica PowerCenter data mappings and workflows for data transformations and deployment


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Software Engineering
University of Michigan-Dearborn
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ricokahler
- GitHub: https://github.com/ricokahler
- Website: https://stackoverflow.com/users/5776910/rico-kahler

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JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rico/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22