Ryan Bell
Senior Software Engineer at Tanium
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Bell is a Senior Software Engineer with 17 years of experience blending systems administration and backend engineering, currently driving internal tools and platform work at Tanium from Cincinnati. He brings deep expertise in Python, PowerShell, Linux administration, and configuration management (Chef, Ansible), paired with hands-on database and JVM integration experience demonstrated by contributions to JRuby's ActiveRecord JDBC adapter to improve PostgreSQL compatibility. A Northern Kentucky University computer information technology graduate and former U.S. Marine, he combines disciplined operational rigor with pragmatic software delivery. Colleagues rely on him for reliable automation, cross-team tooling, and fixing subtle database-edge bugs that surface in production.
17 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Information Technology at Northern Kentucky UniversityThe Ohio State University
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Github Skills (8)
activerecord10
postgresql10
jdbc10
ruby10
migration9
java9
sql9
javas9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
jruby/activerecord-jdbc-adapter
Nov 2008 - Aug 2010
JRuby's ActiveRecord adapter using JDBC.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / Database Engineer
Back-end Developer / Database EngineerContributions:31 commits in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the JDBC adapter for ActiveRecord, focusing on improving PostgreSQL compatibility. Their work involved fixing bugs related to insert operations, specifically ensuring correct ID returns, and addressing mixed-case issues in migrations. They also made changes to database interaction logic within the Java source code for better functionality, as well as added tests to verify the fixes. The contributions also included modifications to handle different database systems.
railsrubyadapteractiverecord-adapterjruby
kofno/resulty
Apr 2017 - May 2021
A disjunction implementation in TypeScript.
Contributions:8 releases, 18 commits, 10 PRs in 4 years 1 month
typescript
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