Ryan Manuel
Staff Engineer at Cypress.io
Overland Park, Kansas, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Manuel is a Staff Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable web and testing infrastructure, currently driving engineering at Cypress.io from Overland Park, Kansas. He blends front-end expertise—contributing to Cerner’s widely used Terra React component library—with DevOps work producing Cypress Docker images and cross-browser test automation. His background includes leading distributed teams, codifying JavaScript toolchains, and improving release and monitoring practices at Cerner, where he cut defect turnaround dramatically through process and tooling improvements. Equally comfortable shipping UI components and designing CI/CD artifacts, he brings a pragmatic focus on testability, accessibility, and performance. An MIT-educated engineer, he often bridges product, UX, and reliability concerns to ship resilient developer-facing systems.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (24)
javascript10
docker10
cypress10
nightwatch10
ui-components10
docker-image10
testing10
web-components10
dockers10
automation10
automations10
frontend10
web-frontend10
react10
react-components9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cerner/terra-core
Feb 2017 - Nov 2021
Terra offers a set of configurable React components designed to help build scalable and modular application UIs. This UI library was created to solve real-world issues in projects we work on day to day.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:52 reviews, 108 commits, 170 PRs in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the development of Terra UI components within the `terra-core` repository. Their work included adding and modifying Nightwatch tests for various button functionalities, ensuring proper display across different button types and sizes. They also implemented changes to support Sauce Labs integration, which involved adding browser and platform configurations for cross-browser testing, and also added a placeholder for when translations have not been loaded. Furthermore, the user was involved in preparing the terra-toolkit for release and making performance improvements to the nightwatch tests.
react-componentreact-componentscernerterraterra-ui
cypress-io/cypress-docker-images
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Docker images with Cypress dependencies and browsers
Role in this project:DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:38 reviews, 9 commits, 35 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the repository by generating new Docker images. These images, specifically cypress/included versions, were created for different Cypress versions. The changes involved modifying the build.sh files to incorporate specific dependencies and configurations necessary for each Cypress release, and included version updates.
cypressdocker-imagedocker
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