Ryan Emery
Director Of Development at Lynch Marks LLC
California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Emery is a seasoned director of development with 14 years of engineering experience and a decade-plus track record of leading teams to deliver higher-quality software more frequently. Based in California, he transformed a bi-annual release process into a three-week cadence while halving team headcount and operating costs, and personally designed a hosted architecture that now generates half the company’s revenue. He blends executive project management with hands-on engineering, contributing to open-source projects like Node.js and improving CI/CD automation for AWS CodeBuild workflows. Comfortable across DevOps, backend, and infrastructure, Ryan has a knack for turning multi-month consultant estimates into production-ready solutions in weeks. His St. John’s liberal-arts background informs his analytical approach to product direction and systems design. He’s particularly effective at optimizing legacy systems and automating complex operational workflows to achieve measurable efficiency gains.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) at St. John's College (MD)
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Github Skills (15)
http10
automation10
github-ci10
nodejs10
automations10
javascript10
githubaction-workflow10
url-parsing10
aws10
devops10
cicd10
testing10
repr9
replit9
serverless9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aws-actions/aws-codebuild-run-build
Jan 2020 - Jun 2020
Run an AWS CodeBuild project as a step in a GitHub Actions workflow job.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer & Automation Engineer
DevOps Engineer & Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 1 review, 19 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the automation and infrastructure aspects of the repository. Their work involved implementing and refining the GitHub Actions workflow for building and running AWS CodeBuild projects. They added features for running the action locally, including modifications to the local execution script. Further, they improved the reliability and performance of the action by addressing API rate limiting concerns and optimizing the CloudWatchLogs integration.
aws-codebuildgithubaction-workflowawsdevopsserverless
nodejs/node
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Node.js JavaScript runtime ✨🐢🚀✨
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan focused on enhancing the Node.js runtime's URL parsing and formatting capabilities. Their contributions included implementing new URL properties, and modifying parsing logic to correctly handle edge cases and different URL formats. The user also added tests to verify the accuracy of these changes. Further contributions included improvements to the HTTP request handling, addressing protocol support and implementing features like .load and .save for the REPL.
javascriptnodejsnodejsruntime
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