Bryan Powell
Founder at Proc, Corp
Bellingham, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolBryan Powell is a founder and seasoned web product engineer with 14 years building design-driven web experiences and agencies from Bellingham, Washington. He led Metabahn for over a decade and has recently founded multiple ventures (Proc, Subtext) while serving as Head of Technology at Polywork and CTO/co-founder at Profile.com, bringing both hands-on coding and strategic product leadership. Bryan combines product, design, and engineering fluency—shipping front-end experiences and backend compatibility fixes—and contributes to open-source Ruby tooling such as RSpec mocks to ensure library robustness across Ruby versions. Comfortable switching between startup boots-on-the-ground roles and technical leadership, he skews pragmatic: shipping incremental compatibility and testing improvements that reduce long-term maintenance costs. His background in Business Computer Science informs a user-focused, business-minded approach to engineering and agency operations. Colleagues describe him as a builder who intentionally blends craft design with dependable engineering practices.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Business Computer Science, Business Computer Science at The University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Github Skills (12)
ruby10
rspec10
testing10
rack6
css6
puma6
pakyow6
web-application6
postgresql6
thread-safety6
database6
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rspec/rspec-mocks
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
RSpec's 'test double' framework, with support for stubbing and mocking
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 1 PR in 8 days
Contributions summary:Bryan primarily focused on improving the RSpec mocks library's compatibility with Ruby versions, specifically concerning keyword arguments and the `ruby2_keywords` method. Their contributions involved adapting existing specs to handle different Ruby versions and conditional use of `ruby2_keywords`. They also addressed issues related to `respond_to?` and method definitions. These changes aimed to enhance the library's functionality and maintainability across various Ruby environments.
mockingrspecstubbingtestdoubleruby
bryanp/b3bm
Mar 2021 - Nov 2022
Base62 for Ruby
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 9 pushes in 1 year 8 months
dry-rbrubybase62
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