Ryan Gard
Traffic Attendant at Washington State Ferries
Shelton, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Gard is a pragmatic software developer and engineering leader with 11 years of experience designing test frameworks, CI/CD pipelines, and scalable web platforms. He founded Gardian Capitol to build a microservice-backed health study tracking app—creating a custom Python framework, a TypeScript React front end, and a deployment pipeline using Dokku, Ansible, Keycloak, and GitHub Actions. Across roles at Puppet, Rackspace, and others he revived stalled automation efforts, built pytest plugins and tooling, and embedded QA into engineering teams to improve release confidence. Currently a Traffic Attendant with Washington State Ferries, he pairs frontline responsibility for safety and revenue control with an ongoing commitment to software craftsmanship. Known for pragmatic tooling (from Beaker helpers to pytest extensions) and rolling up his sleeves to both lead teams and ship code, he brings a rare blend of operational discipline and hands-on engineering.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS Philosophy, BS Philosophy at Portland State University
English
Github Skills (112)
dsc10
automation-framework10
puppet10
harness10
lvm10
cli10
prisma10
java10
tailwindcss10
typesafe10
npx10
react10
t3-stack9
codegen9
next-auth9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
cowofevil/flask-ligand-example
Sep 2022 - May 2023
A simple example project on how to use the flask-ligand library.
Contributions:74 PRs, 72 pushes, 57 branches in 8 months
flaskpythonligand
cowofevil/puppetlabs-dsc
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 89 pushes, 105 branches in 10 months
puppetpowershelldscpuppet-moduledesired-state-configuration
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