Rich Meyers
IT Syst Test Eng Lead at Progressive Insurance
Greater Cleveland United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRich Meyers is an experienced IT systems and test engineering leader with over two decades in enterprise software testing and 16 years in progressive roles at Progressive Insurance, currently serving as IT Syst Test Eng Lead. He specializes in application performance, test automation, and designing tooling that turns repeatable manual tasks into reliable automated solutions to free engineers for higher-value analysis. Rich blends deep hands-on automation and backend skills with systems analysis, having moved from QA scripting to leading performance-focused testability improvements across large quoting and claims applications. He is an active open-source contributor in the Ruby ecosystem, improving database migration tooling and broadening SQLite and AWS gem compatibility—work that shows an eye for backward compatibility and robust error handling. Based in Greater Cleveland, he pairs institutional knowledge of insurance systems with pragmatic engineering to reduce risk and improve test stability. Colleagues rely on him for translating complex performance risks into practical, testable solutions.
15 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, A, Information Technology, A at Willoughby Eastlake Technical SchoolComputer and Information Sciences and Support Services, Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services at Willoughby Technical School for Information SystemsWilloughby South High
English
Github Skills (21)
database-migrations10
sqlite10
amazon-web-services10
ruby10
compatibility10
activerecord10
rake10
database-migration10
testing9
admin9
ec9
c119
database-administration9
databases9
amazon-s39
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
flexera-public/right_aws
Jan 2011 - Nov 2011
RightScale Amazon Web Services Ruby Gems
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the `RightScale Amazon Web Services Ruby Gems` repository, specifically enhancing the `EmrInterface` for Elastic Map Reduce. Their work involved fixing parsing issues for step arguments and properties within the EMR interface. Additionally, they documented options for the S3 interface and added block device mapping syntax for ephemeral storage in EC2 images.
mongoidmhealthawsrubydry-rb
thuss/standalone-migrations
Jan 2011 - May 2011
A gem to use Rails Database Migrations in non Rails projects
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Rich primarily contributed to the `standalone-migrations` gem, focusing on the underlying implementation of database migration tasks. Their work involved modifying the rake tasks for creating, migrating, and managing database schemas. They enhanced functionality by allowing rake tasks to be placed in a sub-namespace and improved error handling and configuration loading. The user also added tests to ensure the correctness of the migration tasks.
ruby-on-railsrailsrubydatabase-migrationsdatabase
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