Ryan Caloras is a Senior Engineering Manager based in New York with 14 years of experience building and scaling high-performing, diverse teams to deliver consumer-facing products used by hundreds of millions daily. He blends product-minded leadership with hands-on engineering across backend and mobile stacks, shepherding new products and organizations from concept to scale. At DoorDash he leads teams focused on high engagement experiences while maintaining a strong emphasis on hiring, culture, and developer productivity. An active open-source maintainer, he authored and improved Bash tooling for preexec hooks and cloud-backed command history, showing a pragmatic attention to developer workflows and edge-case robustness. A Carnegie Mellon CS graduate, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with a knack for unlocking cross-functional velocity.
14 years of coding experience
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
:cloud: Bash history in the cloud. Indexed and searchable.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:29 releases, 4 reviews, 421 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the project's back-end functionality, focusing on cloud-based Bash history storage and retrieval. Their work includes creating models, adding user context, and implementing API requests to send data to a server. They also updated the project to use production servers and included a filter to ignore certain commands.
⚡ preexec and precmd functions for Bash just like Zsh.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:15 releases, 16 reviews, 126 commits in 8 years
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a Bash library for implementing pre-execution and pre-command functions, similar to those in Zsh. Their work involved creating the core functionality of the library, including the `preexec` and `precmd` hooks. Subsequent commits focused on bug fixes, comment corrections, and enhancements like subshell support, as well as improving robustness, code clarity, and handling edge cases related to the existing `PROMPT_COMMAND`.
zshshellzsh-pluginbashprecmd
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Ryan Caloras - Senior Engineering Manager at DoorDash