Ray Myers
Founder at The Coding Agency
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolRay Myers is a Chief Architect and seasoned software engineering leader with 19 years of experience specializing in legacy code modernization and site reliability. He builds resilient, sustainable systems and is currently focused on integrating AI agents into pragmatic engineering practices at OpenHands. Previously he led resilience and SRE initiatives at Indeed and held principal roles across startups and enterprises, bringing strong DevOps, cloud automation, and frontend-to-backend experience. Ray is known for practical empathy in engineering—advocating craft over cruft—and shares those perspectives as the host of Craft vs Cruft and Empathy in Tech. Based in Missouri, he combines hands-on system ownership (from Java backends to AngularJS and AWS automation) with a calm, collaborative leadership style that makes complex migrations and reliability work approachable. An engineer who thinks like a maintainer, he focuses on durable solutions that reduce long-term operational friction.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Missouri University of Science and Technology
English
Stackoverflow
543reputation
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Github Skills (148)
chatgpt10
hashicorp10
haml10
chaos10
sdk10
webapp10
ai10
gpt10
configuration-language10
developer-tools10
cli10
chaos-engineering10
json10
artificial-intelligence10
boto10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
craftvscruft/tfrefactor
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Automated refactoring for Terraform
Contributions:25 commits, 9 PRs, 34 pushes in 7 days
automated-refactoringterraform
raymyers/toc-lang
Jan 2023 - Dec 2025
Text-based notation for Theory of Constraints diagrams
Contributions:7 PRs, 54 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 11 months
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