Ryan Barrett
Senior Software Engineer, Ads at Nextdoor
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Barrett is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of backend-focused experience building performant, scalable systems for ads and platform teams in the Bay Area. He has a track record at Nextdoor and enterprise firms like PwC and Insight Global delivering robust APIs, ETL migrations, messaging layers, and geospatial query support using technologies such as Node.js, Java, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Azure, and AWS. He’s driven measurable impact—reducing onboarding latency by up to 50% at PwC and replacing vendor systems through owned data models and ETL at Insight Global. Comfortable across microservices, databases (Postgres, Couchbase), and infrastructure as code, he pairs pragmatic engineering with attention to stability and observability. Beyond backend work, Ryan has contributed front-end usability improvements to the widely used Firefox Profiler, reflecting an uncommon full-stack sensitivity to user experience. Based in San Francisco, he’s focused on continuous learning and shipping features that deliver clear business value.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at California State University, Monterey Bay
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Github Skills (10)
css10
responsive-design10
javascript10
performance-monitor10
performance-analysis10
profiler10
react10
devtools10
redux9
html9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
firefox-devtools/profiler
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Firefox Profiler — Web app for Firefox performance analysis
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on improving the user interface and responsiveness of the Firefox Profiler web application. Their contributions included adjusting the layout and styling of the footer, home page, and profile viewer to accommodate smaller screen sizes using media queries. They also made adjustments to the homepage and removed unnecessary styling. These changes indicate a focus on improving the user experience across different devices.
firefoxreactgecko-profilerperformance-analysisjavascript
ryan-barrett/icon
Oct 2018 - Oct 2019
HackAtl 2018 - tag clothing using machine learning
Contributions:35 PRs, 51 pushes, 25 branches in 1 year
machine-learningclothing
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