Ryan Malloy
Content Production Specialist at The Boulder Garden
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Malloy is a content production specialist and technical writer with 12 years of experience translating complex topics into clear, audience-tailored content across education and tech. Based in Raleigh-Durham after a recent move, he combines strong written communication with analytical problem-solving honed through roles in QA, project management, and client-facing support. Ryan contributes to open-source software—updating the well-known jazzband/django-avatar package for Django 4.0—demonstrating hands-on backend coding and migration skills alongside his editorial work. His background includes producing technical learning materials, building documentation systems, and scripting tutorial videos, reflecting a blend of pedagogical and technical strengths. Comfortable working with engineers and product teams, he seeks to leverage his cross-functional experience to grow into a technical writing role within the RDU tech scene. A former Wikimedia ambassador and high-speed transcriptionist, he brings an unusual combination of editorial precision and practical engineering contributions.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Mathematics at Northeastern University
English
Github Skills (4)
avatar10
django10
gettext10
python10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-avatar
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
A Django app for handling user avatars.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on updating the Django-avatar application to align with Django 4.0. Their contributions involved migrating code from deprecated functionalities, specifically addressing changes in import statements like `ugettext_lazy` to `gettext_lazy` and `force_text` to `force_str`. They also updated signal and URL handling. The user also updated views, forms and template tags.
djangopythonavatar
rsp2k/django-oscar
Jan 2017 - Oct 2024
Domain-driven e-commerce for Django
Contributions:5 pushes, 3 branches in 7 years 10 months
pythonecommercecommercedjangoe-commerce
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