Buck Ryan
Independent Software Consultant at Freelance
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBuck Ryan is an independent software consultant and seasoned engineering leader with 13 years of experience building high-throughput, data-centric systems and founding startups. As Co-Founder and CTO of Crossbeam he scaled engineering to 30 engineers and helped the product reach Series C funding and thousands of verified companies while operating a platform processing tens of thousands of events per second with 99.999% uptime. His background spans full-stack work—from a Vue SPA frontend and Clojure backends to Postgres, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes on AWS—and deep data engineering experience including Kafka, Spark, and Redshift migrations. An early entrepreneur, he founded Data Mules and later a consultancy that fed into Crossbeam, and he contributes to developer tooling OSS like powerline-shell, improving workflow ergonomics and VCS integration. He combines hands-on coding with product-minded architecture and a knack for turning prototype ideas into scalable production systems.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science, Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Mathematics at Drexel UniversityGerman, German at Freie Universität BerlinComputer Science, Computer Science at University of Mannheim
German
Github Skills (10)
git10
ui-theme10
bash10
shell10
wordpress-themes10
python10
powerline10
color-scheme10
zsh9
developer-tools8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
b-ryan/powerline-shell
Jul 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:121 pushes, 24 branches in 2 years 2 months
bashfishdotfilesterminalshell
b-ryan/buckryan.com
Sep 2017 - Aug 2021
Contributions:27 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 11 months
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