Ryan Boland
Lead Developer at Tanooki Labs
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Boland is a Lead Developer in Pittsburgh with 13 years of experience turning entrepreneurial ideas into polished web products at a consultancy. He blends hands-on web development with a background in safety-critical railway systems and embedded engineering, giving him a strong discipline for reliable, auditable solutions. As an active back-end contributor to the widely used rubocop project, he has improved Ruby code analysis by adding cops like MethodLength and ReduceArguments and refining comment- and one-line-method handling. Organized, curious, and oriented toward continuous learning, he pairs technical breadth—from Microlok systems to modern web stacks—with an ability to document and test complex changes for production use.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Seneca Valley High SchoolAssociate in Science, Associate in Science at Pittsburgh Technical InstituteBachelor's degree, Data Analytics, Bachelor's degree, Data Analytics at Western Governors UniversityComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (24)
rubocop10
ruby-rails10
static-code-analysis10
testing10
css10
sass10
rails10
ruby10
linter10
sprockets10
sc9
scs9
code-formatting8
formater8
swing6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
rubocop/rubocop
Apr 2013 - May 2013
A Ruby static code analyzer and formatter, based on the community Ruby style guide.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 18 days
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `rubocop/rubocop` repository by implementing and modifying code analysis features. They added new cops, specifically the `MethodLength` and `ReduceArguments` cops, enhancing the tool's ability to identify code style violations. They also added a new feature to ignore one-line methods, and to ignore full line comments. These changes directly impacted the tool's functionality and refinement of its code analysis capabilities.
code-analyzerrubyruby-style-guiderubocoplinter
sass/sassc-ruby
Feb 2015 - Jun 2020
Use libsass with Ruby!
Contributions:259 commits, 98 PRs, 218 pushes in 5 years 4 months
libsassruby
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