Ryan Blue
Pharmacy Technician, Automation
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Blue is a Computer Science student at Purdue Indianapolis with a decade of hands-on experience blending technical contributions and frontline operations. He currently works as a Pharmacy Technician focused on automation at Omnicare/CVS Health while maintaining back-end responsibilities for the prominent WPILib robotics library, where he’s improved motion profiling, trajectory utilities, and documentation. Ryan’s open-source work shows attention to control systems detail—adding acceleration limits and clarifying setGoal behavior—alongside practical technical writing for FRC documentation. Comfortable in both customer-facing roles and complex codebases, he brings a pragmatic, systems-oriented mindset to automation and embedded control problems.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Purdue UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Pike High School
Github Skills (11)
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c-language10
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cprogramming-language10
wpilib10
java10
documentation10
trajectory-generation10
technical-writing10
fest4
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
wpilibsuite/wpilib-docs
Apr 2019 - Jan 2023
Official WPILib Documentation powered by Read the Docs
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:42 reviews, 19 commits, 58 PRs in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the repository by updating and expanding the documentation. Their work involved fixing typos, correcting formatting issues, and adding new content such as tutorials for getting started and troubleshooting. They also updated images and corrected broken links, ensuring that the documentation is accurate, up-to-date, and easier to use.
read-the-docswpilib
wpilibsuite/allwpilib
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Official Repository of WPILibJ and WPILibC
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:378 reviews, 33 commits, 253 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on refactoring and improving the `ProfiledPIDSubsystem` and `TrajectoryUtil` classes, indicating a focus on motion profiling and trajectory generation within the WPILib framework. Contributions include fixing setGoal behavior, addressing documentation ambiguities, and adding a minimum acceleration parameter to the `DifferentialDriveAccelerationLimiter`. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving control system functionality and documentation clarity within the library.
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