Ri Le
Ri Le

Richard “Ri” Le (pronounced ARE-ee lay) is a software engineer focused on designing maintainable, scalable, and robust systems, applying technology with strategic care, and writing great code to build thoughtful, human-centered apps and sites that make the most of the Web to inform, connect, inspire, and serve every user.

Recent toolbox:
JavaScript • React+Redux • Python • Node.js • PostgreSQL

Featured Work

Rendering of Kendall Square with modern buildings and crowds of visitors.

MIT Museum at Kendall

In-gallery and Web applications for 2 upcoming exhibitions at the MIT Museum at Kendall.

Images of Tulip homepage

Tulip

Building a dynamic, vast, and robust marketing website for the industrial operations company Tulip.

Screenshot of Citi Bike Planner app with bar charts and map.

Citi Bike Planner App

Prototype React app that helps Citi Bike riders see which stations are popular in their local neighborhood.

Screenshot of homelessness map and bar charts.

Homelessness in the City of Angels

Mapping homelessness and Airbnb rentals in Los Angeles to explore ideas about home and homelessness, fantasy and reality.

Supri Bhele and Ri Le are holding 3D printed BirdyBird model alongside the internal Arduino-powered electronics in a park.

BirdyBird: Cute Meets Quant

The canary in the coal mine for the 21st century—using emotion and feeling to humanize air quality sensing in parks.

Colorful bubble chart with top baby names in NYC.

New York Baby Names Sonified

Experimental interactive data visualization that transforms a force-layout chart into a musical toy.

Wordle clone in Rust

A simple CLI clone of Wordle written in Rust.

Indexhibit on Docker

A Dockerized legacy PHP+MySQL created for educational purposes.

chatland

A simple chatroom built with Node.js + Sockets.io.

Buttondown Lambda Microservice

A tiny Buttondown REST API microservice built with Node.js and Terraform+AWS.

Brand Toolkit for Political Group

An unreleased Web-based brand toolkit featuring an in-browser interactive SVG logo generator built on React + Gatsby produced as a client project for an undisclosed national political group.

Visit the Archive for all projects.