Ryan Barr
Senior Manager, Software Engineering at Upstart
Denver, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Barr is a senior engineering leader based in Denver with 11+ years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing web applications that reach hundreds of millions of users. Currently Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Upstart, he has led large teams at Disney Streaming, overseeing video and player experiences across Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN while driving architectural initiatives, CI/CD improvements, and live-stream monitoring at scale. He blends hands-on front-end expertise (React, Next.js, Lit, TypeScript) with product-led management, having built design systems, real-time collaboration features, and high-performance web applications at Axios, Shutterstock, and others. A repeat founder and operator in esports and startups, he pairs technical depth with commercial instincts—scaling teams, revenue, and product while mentoring engineers. Notably, he practices iterative, atomic change delivery and emphasizes developer experience as a lever for sustained velocity.
11 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Chatfield High SchoolWarren TechDeVry University
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (90)
csrf10
authentication10
spid10
auth10
nuxt-auth10
pathofexile10
harvest10
solidjs10
jwt10
sveltekit10
stateless10
access-token10
nodejs10
node-ipc10
nuxt10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ryanbarr/harvest-monster
Jun 2022 - Aug 2022
A tool to help you sell Path of Exile Harvest crafts on The Forbidden Trove.
Contributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 236 commits in 1 month
exiletrovepathofexileforbiddenpath-of-exile
ryanbarr/node-streamelements
Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
An unofficial wrapper for the StreamElements API.
Contributions:4 releases, 13 commits, 5 PRs in 2 years 5 months
apistreamelementsnodejsstreamelements-apiwrapper
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