Barranger Ridler
Engineering Manager at Refersion
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolBarranger Ridler is an engineering manager and seasoned full-stack developer with over two decades of experience turning complex business needs into scalable, maintainable software. He has a proven knack for rescuing mission-critical projects and modernizing legacy systems, having driven architecture overhauls that cut server costs by 80% and re-architected monoliths into serverless, distributed platforms. Comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions, he blends hands-on work—from Node.js, TypeScript, .NET, and React/React Native—to product leadership, having launched a Shopify app single-handedly in four weeks. His background includes building high-throughput consumer applications, workforce management systems coordinating half a million smart meter installs, and influencing provincial energy data standards. A pragmatic coach and mentor, he pairs rapid delivery under pressure with strong testing, telemetry, and CI/CD practices to ensure long-term reliability. Based in Toronto, he maintains a technical blog at barranger.dev that reflects his focus on sustainable architectures and practical modernization.
14 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Programmer, Computer Programmer/Analyst, Computer Programmer, Computer Programmer/Analyst at George Brown College
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Github Skills (73)
mms10
dotnet9
wireless9
voice9
sms9
windows-phone9
twilio9
react9
api8
linux8
asp-net8
asp-net-core8
dotnet-core8
telephony8
csharp8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
barranger/CollabHelper
Mar 2020 - Oct 2022
A Collection of apps to help people through the Covid 19 outbreak and more
Contributions:14 PRs, 30 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 7 months
flutterhelp-peopleoutbreak
barranger/every-day
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
Start of a personal website/app to help and track making yourself better one day at a time
Contributions:12 commits, 31 pushes, 2 branches in 8 days
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