Bryan Hanks is a Principal-level IT delivery leader with 17 years of experience delivering cloud-native web, mobile, and data pipeline solutions while bridging business needs and engineering execution. He combines hands-on development experience—contributing to open-source Ruby tooling and maintaining test suites for modern Rails/Ruby versions—with advanced delivery certifications including CSP-SM, CSPO, CST, PMP, and SAFe. Bryan has led projects for Fortune 50 and Fortune 500 clients at Slalom Build and has repeatedly helped organizations adopt Agile practices to boost visibility, quality, and time-to-market. Known for mentoring teams and clients, he focuses on pragmatic, transparent processes that tolerate change and emphasize measurable outcomes. Based in Houston, he pairs a technical foundation in geophysics/mathematics with decades of product delivery across industries from oil & gas to education and insurance. Colleagues describe him as the kind of engineer who codes for fun to turn paper airplanes into space shuttles—practical, curious, and delivery-focused.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Geophysics Mathematics, BS Geophysics Mathematics at University of Houston
Scrum master training certificate Project management, Scrum master training certificate Project management at Agile Learning Labs
Pretty print your Ruby objects with style -- in full color and with proper indentation
Role in this project:
Backend & QA Engineer
Contributions:3 releases, 18 reviews, 12 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily contributed to the testing and maintenance of the Ruby library. They focused on updating test suites to support new Ruby and Rails versions, specifically adding tests for Rails 6.0 and 6.1, and Mongoid 7. They also addressed compatibility issues by fixing code for newer Ruby versions and updating dependencies, including version bumps and canonical updates.
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years 8 months
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