Ryan Guill
Staff Software Engineer at Vendr
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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SeniorRyan Guill is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building data-driven, cloud-native systems from Memphis, Tennessee. He specializes in AI/LLM work, SQL and relational databases (with a clear preference for PostgreSQL), TypeScript/JavaScript, AWS, and containerization with Docker. At Vendr he progressed from senior engineer to engineering manager and now staff engineer, blending hands-on coding with technical leadership and delivery ownership. His open-source contributions include meaningful core improvements to the long-running FW/1 CFML framework—work that touched dependency injection and tracing internals—illustrating a willingness to dig into framework-level plumbing. Known for pragmatic architecture choices and a focus on observability, he brings both deep backend expertise and modern ML/infra tool fluency to product teams.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
sqlite10
cfml10
sql10
escaping10
web-framework10
dependency-injection10
coldfusion10
database10
jdbc9
actionscript9
apache-flex9
debug8
debugging8
mvc-framework8
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Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
framework-one/fw1
Mar 2014 - Oct 2015
FW/1 - Framework One - is a lightweight, convention over configuration, MVC application framework for ColdFusion / CFML.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 comments in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on enhancing the framework's core functionality, specifically related to tracing and the dependency injection container (IOC). They added features such as a delta column to trace output, function expression support for the `onLoad` listener, and a new `isConstant()` method. They also addressed related issues such as the disabling and re-enabling of layouts, and made improvements to preserve keys in the context. These modifications involved changes to core framework files.
phpcfmlframeworkmvc-applicationapplication-framework
ryanguill/watney
Jun 2015 - Feb 2020
Watney, the bot for slack
Contributions:112 commits, 21 PRs, 101 pushes in 4 years 8 months
slackbotwatneyslack-bot
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