Ryan Seys
Staff Software Engineer at Shopify
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Seys is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 14 years of experience, currently focused on Shopify Balance. He brings deep backend expertise in Node.js and cloud APIs, evidenced by contributions to google-cloud-node and the official google-api-nodejs-client where he improved performance, data handling, and multipart uploads. Equally comfortable on the client side, his Android TV work shows he can bridge backend systems with polished user-facing experiences. Prior roles at Verily give him experience building software for complex, regulated domains, and he pairs that domain rigor with a penchant for small, high-impact refactors and clearer, more testable code.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at Carleton University
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Github Skills (29)
api-doc10
google-api10
javascript10
ui-d10
node-js10
testing10
exoplayer210
google-apis10
ui-design10
java10
javas10
api10
javascripts10
front-end-development10
google-cloud10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
googlearchive/androidtv-Leanback
Jun 2015 - May 2016
:tv: Android TV Leanback Support Library sample app
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 17 PRs, 45 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on developing and refining the user interface for the Android TV Leanback sample app. Their contributions include implementing automatic video playback, fixing stream resource leaks, and improving code formatting for better readability. Additionally, the user made significant changes to the UI components, including the PlaybackOverlayFragment and MovieDetailsFragment. They also added handling for L1 and R1 buttons and fixed animations.
androidsupport-libraryleanbackandroidtvkotlin
googleapis/google-api-nodejs-client
May 2014 - Feb 2016
Google's officially supported Node.js client library for accessing Google APIs. Support for authorization and authentication with OAuth 2.0, API Keys and JWT (Service Tokens) is included.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 280 commits, 32 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on fixing linting errors and updating code within test files and examples. They made improvements to request generation and the handling of responses. Their contributions involved refactoring code and modifying internal code for Google API clients, with specific attention to handling multipart uploads and data structures.
js-clienttokensgooglejwt-serviceapi-keys
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