Paul Ryan
Tech Lead at University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Ryan is a tech lead with 13 years of experience managing DevOps and computing infrastructure for the College of Education at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he also architects and builds mobile and web learning applications. His work blends instructional design, learning analytics, HCI, and information architecture to create educational platforms that emphasize credibility, usability, and visualization. Comfortable across cloud orchestration, DevOps, and full-stack development, he has a long history of shipping production systems—from Hawaiian language mobile games to reservation and veterans’ educational sites. Paul pairs a Ph.D. in Information Science with hands-on teaching and product engineering experience, bringing academic rigor to practical, user-centered solutions. Based in Honolulu, he quietly combines deep research interests with years of operational leadership, often bridging campus IT, pedagogy, and software delivery.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Information Science, Ph.D., Information Science at The University of Texas at AustinB.S., B.S., B.A., Computer Science (B.S.), Mathematics (B.S.), English (B.A.), B.S., B.S., B.A., Computer Science (B.S.), Mathematics (B.S.), English (B.A.) at University of Iowa
Spanish
Github Skills (142)
github10
authentication10
authorizer10
chat10
subversion10
collaboration10
javascript10
shortcode10
wordpress10
data-protection10
api10
git10
ldap10
cas10
slack10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
uhm-coe/authorizer
Apr 2013 - Jan 2023
Authorizer is a WordPress plugin that uses Google, CAS, LDAP, or an OAuth2 provider for logins, and can prevent public access to a WordPress site. It also blocks repeated failed login attempts.
Contributions:1 review, 1275 commits, 56 PRs in 9 years 11 months
failedwordpressphpldapprevent
uhm-coe/limit-revision-publishing
Jul 2016 - Oct 2024
Contributions:1 PR, 68 pushes, 2 branches in 8 years 4 months
publishwordpresscapabilitywordpress-pluginpost-type
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