Ryan Cavis
Technical Lead at Cavis Adventure Coding
Estes Park, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Cavis is a pragmatic technical lead with 14 years of full-stack experience building and scaling web applications and APIs for public media and startups while doing devops on a shoestring. He combines hands-on server administration, Ruby on Rails and JavaScript development, and test automation to ship reliable systems quickly and iterate without drama. At PRX he leads by learning-and-doing, and as owner of Cavis Adventure Coding he solves diverse client problems across languages and stacks. An advocate for open, collaborative technologies, he also improved reliability of widely used Node.js tooling by strengthening tests for the follow-redirects project. Outside engineering he's a trained musician—trumpet and accordion—which informs a creative, performance-minded approach to problem solving.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire
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Github Skills (8)
http10
nodejs10
javascript10
test-automation10
testing10
jestjs9
maps6
leaflet6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
follow-redirects/follow-redirects
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
Node.js module that automatically follows HTTP(S) redirects
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:7 commits, 10 comments, 1 issue in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ryan focused on improving the test suite for the `follow-redirects` module. Their contributions include adding and modifying tests to ensure proper handling of timeouts and redirects, including scenarios with redirect delays and socket interactions. The changes involved the addition of new test cases, mocking timers for deterministic testing, and ensuring the test suite covered various edge cases related to the module's core functionality. These changes enhanced the reliability and robustness of the module.
node-jsjavascriptnodejsredirectsjs-module
PRX/proxy.prx.org
Mar 2018 - Oct 2024
Contributions:3 reviews, 46 PRs, 58 pushes in 6 years 8 months
proxy-servertencent-cloudproxyreverse-proxyweb-proxy
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