Ryan Lambert
Engineering Manager at Shopify
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Lambert is an engineering manager and full-stack developer with nine years of experience building and running scalable teams and production web platforms from Chicago. He has led and grown engineering orgs (up to multiple EMs and contractors) while serving as primary backend architect for APIs, queues, and real-time systems, and has hands-on experience across TypeScript/Node/NestJS, React, GraphQL, Mongo/Postgres, Terraform, Docker, and AWS. At Dispatch he balanced roadmap ownership, uptime SLAs (99.99%), and observability (Datadog, Sentry) while contributing significant frontend and SDK code; prior roles show a track record of delivering cross-platform apps, CI/CD, and infrastructure at Bibliotech. He’s also versed in Web3 tooling (ethers.js, hardhat, Solidity) and lower-level languages like Rust, reflecting a curiosity that extends beyond typical full-stack stacks. Colleagues would call him a practical planner who mentors engineers, aligns engineering with business OKRs, and still ships code alongside his teams. Fluent in German contexts from a Fulbright teaching stint, he brings both international communication skills and hands-on technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Honors Bachelor, Honors Bachelor at Rollins College
English, German
Github Skills (59)
google-meet10
testing9
webpack9
round-robin9
chrome-extension9
solve9
clipboard8
angular8
react8
web-components8
vue8
javascript8
react-native8
svelte7
chrome7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
LambyPants/google-meet-randomizer
Aug 2020 - Oct 2021
Chrome extension which creates a randomized list all participants on an active call which can be copied to your clipboard. This extension is meant to solve the "who has already gone / who is next?" problem which occurs during round-robin group presentations.
Contributions:1 review, 30 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year 2 months
solveround-robinrandomizedclipboardrobin
LambyPants/ryan-lambert-portfolio
May 2017 - Jul 2020
This is my personal portfolio site - made with React and Redux
Contributions:2 PRs, 46 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 2 months
reactjsjavascriptreactredux
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