Ryan Elder
Security Engineer at Thalamus
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Elder is a Security Engineer and former CTO with 13 years of experience building secure, user-focused systems across automotive, research, and healthcare startups. He co-founded Medicratic to speed and democratize medical education and previously secured in-vehicle systems at Ford and research projects at Southwest Research Institute. Technically versatile, he contributes to both front-end UI libraries and Python event-driven frameworks, demonstrating fluency from UI components to WSGI routing and QA. His background as a CyberCorps scholar and hands-on internships at the FTC and Mentor Graphics reflect a strong foundation in applied security, data processing, and cloud tooling. Based in New York, he combines entrepreneurial leadership with deep engineering chops and an uncommon personal interest in crypto-anarchist thought and agorism that informs a privacy-first approach to system design.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Engineering at George Fox UniversityMaster of Science - MS Cybersecurity, Master of Science - MS Cybersecurity at Georgia Institute of TechnologyHigh School, High School at Tualatin High School
Github Skills (10)
testing10
javascript10
mobile-ui10
wsgi10
python10
unit-testing9
web-framework9
css8
html8
http7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
quantmind/pulsar
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Event driven concurrent framework for Python
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 6 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributes to the `pulsar` framework, making changes to the WSGI application components, routers, and testing infrastructure. Their work involves enhancing and fixing example applications within the framework. The user also implements and tests features of the WSGI router.
event-drivenpythonasynciowsgitest-framework
dexteryy/CardKit
Jan 2013 - Mar 2013
A mobile UI library provides a series of building blocks which are all components built on DarkDOM and Moui.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the UI of the mobile UI library, focusing on building components and improving the user experience. Their commits involve bug fixes within the `ajax.js` file and formatting changes. Additionally, the user implemented and modified components like `ck-modal-link` and added `ck-title` to examples, showing focus on UI enhancements and integration.
mobile-ui
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