Ryan Bagwell
Staff Software Engineer at Focus
Needham, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRyan Bagwell is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building full‑stack web platforms, currently working on a federal grants modernization app for HHS. He brings deep Python/Django backend expertise combined with React front-end skills and a strong DevOps toolkit including Kubernetes, Terraform, and AWS. Ryan has shipped production messaging and fleet-management systems at scale (Klaviyo, Superpedestrian) and led Jamstack architectures at Notorious111, blending rapid product delivery with robust infrastructure. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved the popular react-slick carousel by adding custom navigation and practical examples, showing attention to UI polish as well as back-end reliability. His background in journalism and music informs clear technical communication and a knack for distilling complex requirements into usable systems.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Journalism, B.A., Journalism at Penn State UniversityCertificate, Web Development, Certificate, Web Development at Center for Digital Imaging Arts at Boston University
Github Skills (6)
javascript10
carousel-slider10
react10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
akiran/react-slick
Mar 2015 - Aug 2016
React carousel component
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 13 comments in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the UI of a React carousel component. They implemented the ability to provide custom navigation buttons and updated default property names. Additionally, the user added examples, including uneven sets, to the component's documentation and made slight adjustments to the slider's behavior when not in infinite mode. These changes involved React component modification and the use of libraries such as `classnames`.
react-carouselreactcarouselslick
ryanbagwell/mytrafficdata.app
Mar 2018 - Oct 2021
Contributions:150 commits, 151 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
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