Ryan Hellyer
Full Stack Engineer at Syde Jobs
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Hellyer is a Full Stack Engineer with 14+ years of experience designing enterprise-scale PHP systems and modern Laravel and WordPress applications, focused on performance, security, and maintainability. He has built foundational WordPress tooling—from one of the first full-scale theme editors to a Stale Cache library that ports Laravel caching concepts into WordPress—and has led CMS-to-static conversion and search systems used at scale. His background includes security audits for Fortune 500 clients, high-traffic optimisation, and authoring 40+ plugins, alongside running Laravel-based SaaS like Spam Destroyer. Based in Berlin, he blends rigorous engineering practices (PSR standards, unit testing, service containers) with practical DevOps automation, and uniquely pairs a scientific research background in chemistry with deep production engineering instincts.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science Majoring in chemistry, Master of Science Majoring in chemistry at University of Otago
Github Skills (106)
traffic10
jetpack10
wordpress10
disable10
js10
marketing10
plugin10
php10
wordpress-plugin10
react10
seo9
meta-tags9
custom-fields9
wordpress-api9
security9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ryanhellyer/hellyer-kiwi-website
Jan 2015 - Dec 2024
The hellyer.kiwi website
Contributions:14 PRs, 5146 pushes, 15 branches in 10 years
kiwi
ryanhellyer/end-to-end
Dec 2013 - Sep 2020
Contributions:8 commits, 3 pushes, 5 comments in 6 years 10 months
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