Ryan Barnes
Engineering at Unwrap.ai
Santa Barbara, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Barnes is an experienced software engineer with 11 years building maintainable, high-performance systems across startups and large enterprises, currently contributing to Unwrap.ai from Santa Barbara. He brings a rare blend of scientific rigor and production engineering shaped by a PhD in Physical Chemistry and prior roles at Amazon and FLIR where he led teams, introduced automated testing and achieved 100–1000x speedups with GPU/CPU image processing. Comfortable across the stack, Ryan has delivered end-to-end projects on tight timelines and mentored colleagues to raise code quality and delivery practices. His background as a maker, educator, and published graduate researcher gives him a knack for translating complex scientific problems into robust software solutions. Known as an enthusiastic team player and deep creative thinker, he prefers pragmatic designs that scale and are easy to maintain. Based in Santa Barbara, he blends academic depth with product-focused engineering to tackle challenging technical problems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's degree, Chemistry at California State University-ChicoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (10)
vtt9
azerothcore9
character-sheet8
csharp8
plugin4
nodejs3
jira3
cypress2
cucumber2
xray1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
barnes/web-110
Aug 2023 - Oct 2023
Contributions:6 PRs, 22 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
barnes/Gradebook
Mar 2021 - Jun 2021
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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