Ryan Hunt
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla
Afton, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Hunt is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience focused on WebAssembly, graphics, and low-level runtime systems at Mozilla. He blends front-end GPU rendering work (notably on Servo's WebRender) with deep back-end expertise in Wasm runtimes and toolchains (wasmtime, wasm-tools, and Cranelift), contributing features for reference types, GC and bulk-memory operations. Ryan is comfortable across the stack—shipping rendering features, writing conformance tests in web-platform-tests, and evolving compiler/runtime internals—and has a knack for turning spec changes into robust implementations. Based in Afton, Minnesota, he pairs production-grade engineering with active open-source stewardship on high-profile projects that shape the Web and WebAssembly ecosystem.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science, Computer Science at Bethel University
Github Skills (35)
javascript10
shader10
back-end-development10
testing10
rendering10
css10
glsl10
render10
webr10
code-generation10
web-standards10
html10
blazor-webassembly10
wasmtime10
webassembly10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
servo/webrender
Jan 2017 - Jun 2017
A GPU-based renderer for the web
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 50 PRs, 123 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily worked on enhancing the `webrender` repository by implementing various features related to rendering web content. Their contributions include implementing mix-blend-mode operations and filters, adding support for reftest includes and improving the reftest harness output. They also addressed issues like border-radius and content size, and performed shader and gradient improvements.
gpu
bytecodealliance/wasm-tools
Jun 2020 - Nov 2022
CLI and Rust libraries for low-level manipulation of WebAssembly modules
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 19 commits, 19 PRs in 2 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `wasm-tools` repository by implementing and updating features related to WebAssembly's reference types and GC proposals. They made code changes to the `wast` crate, focusing on parsing, resolving names, and encoding WebAssembly types and instructions. Their work included updating the text format to reflect the latest specifications, introducing new instructions, and adapting the code to the evolving GC proposal.
clirustwebassemblywasm
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