Jim Ryan
Founder Principal Engineer PM at Room 118 Solutions, Inc.
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Ryan is a founder, principal engineer, and product leader with 14 years of experience building full‑stack web applications for media, entertainment, and startups from New York. He leads Storied Software and co-founded Room 118 Solutions, combining hands‑on Ruby on Rails, React, Node.js, SQL, AWS, and Web3 engineering with product and delivery ownership for clients ranging from major streaming platforms to VFX studios. Jim is a pragmatic contributor to open‑source Ruby tooling and infra—improving gems like enumerize and rails-settings and hardening an nginx cookbook’s build and systemd integration—which reflects his focus on reliability and automation. Comfortable operating as an agency CTO or embedded engineering team, he excels at translating creative requirements into robust, production‑grade systems.
14 years of coding experience
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at New York Institute of Technology
Spanish
Github Skills (22)
ruby-rails10
cookbook10
testing10
configuration-management10
rails10
ruby10
chef-client10
configuration-file10
mongoid10
activerecord10
appsettings10
chef-solo10
configurations10
nginx10
devops10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ledermann/rails-settings
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
Manage settings with Ruby on Rails
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 1 comment in 20 days
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on enhancing the Rails-settings gem, specifically adding features related to object and class-level settings management. Their work includes implementing the ability to set settings in bulk for objects using the `settings=` method and ensuring the `#all` method includes default settings. The contributions involved modifying the ActiveRecord models and test files to reflect the new functionalities and testing behavior. Overall the commits improved the usability and flexibility of the gem.
ruby-on-railsconfigurationrubygemsrailsruby
sous-chefs/nginx
Jan 2017 - Mar 2017
Development repository for the nginx cookbook
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Jim primarily focused on improving the build and configuration process for the nginx cookbook. They addressed issues related to the integration of LuaJIT, ensuring the correct environment variables were set for compilation. The user also modified the systemd service file to ensure proper startup behavior and implemented changes to the source compilation process, directly impacting the automation and build configurations. These modifications enhanced the cookbook's usability and system integration capabilities.
nginxcookbookrecipebitbakechef-resource
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