Ryan Hanchett
Software Engineer at Thatch
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolRyan Hanchett is a software engineer specializing in developer experience and platform engineering at the intersection of healthcare and genetics, with four years of hands-on experience building scalable internal tools. At Invitae he led the design and rollout of an organization-wide CI/CD platform that enabled 70,000+ deployments across 300+ applications and drove adoption of an automated developer portal that replaced spreadsheet tracking. He combines full‑stack fluency in TypeScript (Node/React), Go, Python (Django/Flask), and Postgres with production Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, and AWS deployments to deliver self‑service platforms and standardized workflows. An active open-source contributor, he enhanced Backstage’s TechDocs and added JWKS authentication support, reflecting his focus on improving developer tooling beyond company walls. Known for translating developer pain points into measurable platform improvements, he also has a track record of cutting vendor spend through internal solutions like feature-flag migrations.
5 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Informatics - Data Science Entrepreneurship, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Informatics - Data Science Entrepreneurship at University of Washington
Github Skills (12)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
backstage/backstage
Sep 2021 - Feb 2022
Backstage is an open framework for building developer portals
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 3 commits, 7 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Backstage developer portal framework by enhancing the functionality and options available to the TechDocs components. They enabled passing material table options to the EntityListDocsTable and DocsTable components, which likely improved customization and control of the displayed documentation. The user also added and tested a new authentication method using JWKS (JSON Web Key Sets), integrating with external token handlers, and adding the configuration to backend.
Additionally, the user merged branches and addressed code organization.
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ryan-hanchett/backstage
Sep 2021 - May 2024
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:20 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 8 months
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