Ry Walker
Founder CEO at Tembo, Inc.
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRy Walker is a seasoned founder and software engineer with 17+ years of experience building developer-first platforms, most recently as CEO of Tembo, a fully-managed, extensible Postgres service aimed at collapsing database sprawl. He co-founded Astronomer (an early Cincinnati unicorn) and Differential, and has a long history of hands-on open-source contributions ranging from Meteor/Vulcan UI work to enhancements in Apache Airflow. A pragmatic full‑stack developer turned operator and investor, he runs venture and family-office vehicles (Cincinnati Ventures, Fireroad, AnotherVenture) to back applied-AI, infrastructure, and open-core businesses. Known for shipping developer tooling and data products, he also created OSSRank, a public ranking of open-source projects and people, reflecting his commitment to community transparency. Outside of tech he’s an avid outdoorsman and indie game developer, a detail that hints at a creative, product-minded approach to engineering and leadership.
17 years of coding experience
Founder Alumni of AngelPad, Founder School Entrepreneurship, Founder Alumni of AngelPad, Founder School Entrepreneurship at AngelPadComputer Science, Computer Science at University of CincinnatiLiberty High School
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (33)
markdown10
javascript10
data-pipelines10
coffeescript10
python10
data-engineering10
workflow-engine10
user-interface10
analytics10
front-end-development10
airflow10
html10
orchestration10
orchestra10
meteor10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
Differential/accounts-entry
Sep 2013 - Aug 2014
Meteor sign up and sign in pages
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:109 commits, 3 comments, 1 issue in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ry primarily contributed to the front-end and user interface components of the Meteor-based application. Their commits demonstrate a focus on modifying HTML and CoffeeScript files related to sign-in, sign-up, and forgot password functionalities. The user implemented changes related to user interface elements and form layout. Furthermore, they introduced configurations and modifications to the application's sign-in and sign-up processes.
sign-insign-upmeteorsign
apache/airflow
Jul 2018 - Feb 2023
Apache Airflow - A platform to programmatically author, schedule, and monitor workflows
Role in this project:Data Engineer
Data EngineerContributions:46 reviews, 78 PRs, 27 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ry contributed to the Apache Airflow project by implementing and modifying features related to data pipeline management and monitoring. Their work includes adding optional analytics scripts for webserver activity tracking using tools like Google Analytics, Segment, and Metarouter. They also made improvements to documentation on how to track user activity and fixed typos related to documentation metrics. The user additionally worked on the documentation by adding a scheduler in the production section.
monitorpythonschedulerapacheprogrammatically
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