Ransom Briggs is a seasoned IT leader with over a decade of hands-on experience building and running managed services, currently serving as Director of IT for 2nd Chance PC Inc. He has a track record of operational excellence—retaining every client while supporting 20+ businesses and 1,000+ users—and a background leading large support teams and complex network migrations. Technically versatile across Windows, macOS, Linux, VMware, Exchange, Active Directory, networking and backup strategies, he pairs deep sysadmin knowledge with practical business results like boosting e-commerce and streamlining support processes. Ransom also contributes to open-source, enhancing the Doorkeeper OAuth2 provider for Rails with token introspection and PKCE improvements, underscoring his ability to bridge infrastructure, security and application-level work. Based in Creswell, Oregon, he combines entrepreneurial experience as a former CEO with a persistent focus on customer-first operations and durable, well-documented IT solutions.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, A, Computer Science, A at Edison Community College
Computer Science, A, Computer Science, A at Notheast Alabama Community College
Fort Payne High School
Computer Science, Computer Science, n/a, Computer Science, Computer Science, n/a at Northeast State Community College
Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:14 reviews, 4 PRs, 36 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ransom primarily focused on enhancing the Doorkeeper OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails. Their contributions include adding features related to token introspection and refresh token revocation. They also addressed bug fixes and implemented code changes related to PKCE support. Furthermore, the user addressed issues by tweaking configurations and generating a migration to remove a not null constraint from the database.
Doorkeeper is an OAuth 2 provider for Ruby on Rails / Grape.
Contributions:25 pushes, 6 branches in 5 months
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Ransom Briggs - Director Of IT at 2nd Chance PC Inc.