Ryan French
Senior Director, Software Engineering at Edgecast
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan French is a seasoned technology leader and Senior Director of Software Engineering with over 14 years of hands-on experience building high-performance distributed systems and leading engineering organizations across media and CDN businesses. He has progressed from senior engineer roles to executive engineering leadership at Myspace, Yahoo, Edgio, and now Edgecast, demonstrating a consistent track record of scaling teams and platforms through major transitions. Known for bridging deep technical judgment with operational rigor, he has led CDN, architecture, and product-focused engineering groups through rapid growth and consolidation. Based in Huntington Beach, CA, he combines startup agility from CTO and manager roles with enterprise-grade delivery at large public companies. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often operates at the intersection of architecture, delivery, and people development to convert complex requirements into resilient, production-ready systems.
14 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Orange Coast College
Github Skills (28)
arraybuffer10
exif10
gif-animation10
image10
apng10
animated10
animated-gif10
gif10
decoding10
parsing10
giphy10
javascript-api10
javascript9
api9
feed6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rfrench/curler
May 2012 - Nov 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 5 years 6 months
http-requestslibcurlasynchronousc-nodehttp-client
rfrench/gify
Feb 2013 - Nov 2017
JavaScript API for decoding/parsing information from animated GIFs using ArrayBuffers.
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 9 months
apngapiimagedecodinganimated
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