Ryan Bergman is a product manager with 12 years of experience building and validating precision agriculture technologies, currently driving product definition and delivery for John Deere from Des Moines. He blends field-tested agronomy and instrumentation expertise with product development rigor—leading discovery through PDP while coordinating customers, dealers, and engineering teams. His background spans hands-on equipment testing, custom data collection hardware, and telematics/SQL reporting systems developed during long tenure at the Digital Ag Innovation Lab. Ryan pairs practical field research (including managing large-scale trials and farmer-facing extension programs like Planter University) with software-minded problem solving—he's even contributed backend test improvements to a popular Java HTTP client on GitHub. Known for keeping the customer's operational challenges front-and-center, he brings a pragmatic, data-driven approach to moving advanced ag tech from prototype to production.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Certificate, Agronomy, Graduate Certificate, Agronomy at Iowa State University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Central Lee High School
Unirest in Java: Simplified, lightweight HTTP client library.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:1 release, 22 reviews, 1306 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving the test suite for the unirest-java library. They made significant changes to testing infrastructure, including the creation of new test classes, the addition of tests for HTTP methods, and the verification of default and user-specified cookie behavior. These changes involved modifying existing test files and adding new ones to ensure the library's core functionality, particularly concerning different HTTP verbs, is properly tested.
Contributions:26 reviews, 15 commits, 27 PRs in 2 years 7 months
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