Ryan Elston
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Checkr, Inc.
Arvada, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Elston is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing fault-tolerant, high-throughput services and leading engineering teams to solve nuanced product challenges. Based in Arvada, Colorado, he has progressed from developer and digital roles into technology leadership and has driven architecture and operations across agencies and startups before focusing on scalable systems at Checkr. Known for balancing pragmatic trade-offs with elegant technical solutions, he builds high-performing teams that deliver measurable business value. An early career in animation and front-end development gives him a strong product sensibility and an eye for user-facing detail that informs his backend and systems work.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Animation, BA, Animation at Westwood College
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Github Skills (57)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
relston/iconicindex
Jun 2021 - Nov 2021
Contributions:48 commits, 7 pushes in 5 months
relston/mark
Jun 2024 - Dec 2025
Interact with LLMs using markdown and images
Contributions:10 releases, 37 PRs, 82 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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