Ryan Delaney
Software Engineer at Linear
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Delaney is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer tooling and production systems across Google, Meta, and startups, now working at Linear in Sunnyvale. He has led small teams and co-founded a proptech startup, combining product ownership with hands-on engineering across front-end and compiler-adjacent toolchains. His open-source contributions include meaningful fixes and UX improvements to high-profile projects like Google Closure Compiler and Apollo Client DevTools, and he helped modernize tsickle to support newer TypeScript semantics. Comfortable operating across full stack, build systems, and developer infrastructure, he has a track record of stabilizing complex codebases and shipping practical improvements that benefit other engineers. Trained in computer systems and computer science at RPI, he pairs low-level compiler insight with pragmatic UI and platform work.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Engingeering and Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Systems Engingeering and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Github Skills (31)
closure10
javascript10
type-check10
typescript10
google-closure-compiler10
chrome-extension10
wpgraphql10
google-chrome-extension10
apollo-client10
wordpress-graphql10
typescript-types10
graphql10
type-checking10
typescripts10
react10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
angular/tsickle
Nov 2019 - Dec 2020
Tsickle — TypeScript to Closure Translator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 26 commits, 24 PRs in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `tsickle` project, a TypeScript to Closure Translator. Their work involved fixing bugs related to running `tsickle` in the browser, validating JSDoc comments, and updating the project to support newer TypeScript versions (3.7, 3.8, and 3.9). Additionally, the user addressed issues related to property renaming and made updates to support `export * as ns` syntax and private fields.
tsickletypescript
google/closure-compiler
Oct 2019 - Dec 2020
A JavaScript checker and optimizer.
Role in this project:Software Engineer
Software EngineerContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 204 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Closure Compiler project by fixing bugs and improving the compiler's functionality. They addressed issues related to missing super calls in JavaScript constructors, duplicate parameter name warnings, and code generation involving template literals. The user also added new features, such as warning for improperly formatted typeof annotations and fixing a compiler crash when using for-of loops without externs. Additionally, they upgraded dependencies and added license headers.
javascriptclosure-compileroptimizationtypechecking
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