Ryan Bigg
Frontend Lead at Fat Zebra
Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
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Top expert inRuby Web Development and E-commerce Technologies
Ryan Bigg is a Frontend Lead with 18 years of hands-on experience across Ruby, Rails, TypeScript, React and Elixir, currently driving frontend at Fat Zebra while also consulting and authoring technical books. He blends product-facing UI leadership with deep backend expertise—contributing to cornerstone Ruby projects like Bundler, Rubygems and Ecto and improving payment and e-commerce stacks such as Spree and Active Merchant. A published author and award-winning contributor, he builds developer-friendly docs and guides in addition to production code, evidenced by documentation and onboarding work in major OSS repos. He’s taught and mentored junior engineers at Culture Amp and Coder Academy, creating curricula spanning web fundamentals to Elixir/Phoenix. Based in Warrnambool, Australia, he values thoughtful outreach from recruiters and prefers roles aligned with his research-driven approach to product and engineering.
18 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
English, ruby
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Github Skills (105)
apim10
devise10
testing10
rspec10
databases10
authentication10
payment-gateway10
ruby10
reviewboard10
routes10
bundler10
heroku10
rake10
i18n-js10
activerecord10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
spree-contrib/spree_active_shipping
Jan 2012 - Jul 2014
Spree integration for Shopify's active_shipping gem.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:67 commits in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on refactoring and updating the `spree_active_shipping` gem, which integrates with various shipping providers. Their contributions involved fixing references to updated namespaces within the ActiveMerchant library, ensuring compatibility with the latest versions. They also modularized the core `ActiveShipping::Base` class and addressed issues with the calculator inheritance structure. Further, the user made updates to align the project with more recent versions of dependencies by changing how they are loaded.
shopify
rubysherpas/paranoia
Oct 2010 - Dec 2021
acts_as_paranoid for Rails 5, 6 and 7
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 164 commits, 35 PRs in 11 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `paranoia` gem, focusing on its core functionality for soft-deleting records in Rails applications. Their work included implementing new features, fixing bugs, and refactoring existing code to improve reliability and address specific issues. They addressed concerns related to object freezing, and callbacks within the destroy/delete process, and improved functionality by adding tests and edge-case handling. The contributions demonstrate expertise in modifying and maintaining the core logic of the gem, including changes to how records are destroyed and restored.
rails
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