Brian Ryckbost
New Business Development at Enagon LLC
Holland, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Ryckbost is a hands-on builder and problem-solver with 17 years of technical and operational experience, currently leading New Business Development at Enagon where he turns food, ag, and industrial by-products into scalable powdered materials. He blends R&D, process development, pilot operations, and go-to-market strategy—running trials, troubleshooting equipment, authoring SOPs and HACCP plans, and translating lab results into commercial workflows. A pragmatic generalist, he pairs startup-trained validation methods with deep curiosity and a "learn by doing" mindset, having also run e-commerce experiments that sharpened his supply-chain and unit-economics instincts. Earlier software leadership and open-source contributions to notable Ruby projects (audited, mongomapper, delayed_job) reflect strong backend engineering chops and a track record of improving testability and maintainability. Comfortable in ambiguous, early-stage environments, he excels at bridging engineering, compliance, and customer needs to deliver repeatable, compliant solutions.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at Calvin University
Github Skills (23)
apim10
ruby-rails10
object-mapping10
facebook-api10
back-end-development10
testing10
audit10
rails10
mongodb-database10
ruby10
callback10
api10
orm10
yaml10
activerecord10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
collectiveidea/delayed_job
Dec 2010 - Apr 2013
Database based asynchronous priority queue system -- Extracted from Shopify
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:78 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily contributed to the backend of the `delayed_job` project, focusing on improvements to testing and code maintainability. They added tests to improve the robustness of the job reservation logic and updated specs for broader compatibility, specifically targeting Ruby 1.9. The user also refactored the codebase by introducing YAML extensions and addressing class serialization issues, indicating a focus on the project's underlying infrastructure. They also made several whitespace and code style adjustments.
asynchronoussidekiqdatabaseprioritypriority-queue
mongomapper/mongomapper
Jul 2010 - Mar 2012
A Ruby Object Mapper for Mongo
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Brian primarily focused on updating the validation features of the Ruby Object Mapper for Mongo. Their contributions involved converting existing validations to align with ActiveModel::Validations, integrating exclusion and inclusion validation, and improving compatibility with Rails. Furthermore, they refactored callback mechanisms and added features such as `update_attribute` and ActiveRecord-style touch functionality, enhancing the framework's capabilities.
ruby-object-mappermongomongoidobject-mapperruby
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