Ryan Garay
Software Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Garay is a Software Engineer II at AWS with a decade of experience building user-focused web applications and APIs, grounded in a Computer Science BA from UC Berkeley. He brings strong front-end expertise—visible in contributions to the open-source Amundsen project where he improved navigation, search UX, and componentization—to enhance data discovery at scale. A first-generation, LGBTQ+ and Hispanic technologist, he pairs technical craft with advocacy for inclusion and social justice. His background spans fast-paced internships and product work at Alexa, Coursera, and other organizations, where he built features, AB tests, and remote-first tooling. Ryan combines full-stack fluency (React, Ruby on Rails, Python) with research-driven product work from his time at UC Berkeley’s PCS. Outside engineering, he writes and communicates complex ideas clearly—a skill honed as a staff reporter for The Daily Californian.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Github Skills (11)
typescript10
javascript10
typescripts10
frontend10
react10
amd10
typescript-types10
html9
css9
data-catalog8
discovery8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
amundsen-io/amundsenfrontendlibrary
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Front-end service library for Amundsen
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits, 66 PRs, 193 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the front-end of the Amundsen frontend library. Their commits focused on enhancing the user interface, including adding links to the header logo, reversing the order of frequent users, and implementing a loading spinner for search requests. They also worked on fixing issues related to the URL state management and the browse tags functionality, indicating a focus on improving the user experience and overall functionality of the application.
reactamundsenservice-libraryfront-endtypescript
amundsen-io/amundsen
May 2019 - Oct 2019
Amundsen is a metadata driven application for improving the productivity of data analysts, data scientists and engineers when interacting with data.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the front-end of the Amundsen application. Their work included adding a link to the home page within the navigation bar, implementing changes related to the display order of frequent users, and fixing URL-related issues within the search functionality. Furthermore, they added a loading spinner to the search requests, and moved the popular tables component to a separate component. Their contributions were focused on improving the user interface and enhancing the user experience.
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