Ryan Mcdevitt
Staff Software Engineer at Solace
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Mcdevitt is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience applying a self-taught, polyglot approach to solve product and business problems across startups and large tech firms like Meta and Comcast. He blends full-stack practice (Go, React, JS) with deep interest in programming language design, curating patterns from languages ranging from Haskell and Rust to Elm and Racket to inform pragmatic architecture choices. Ryan has led engineering teams and major migrations—reducing costs and tech debt through serverless and cloud strategies, and even sped customer time-to-value via a WebAssembly validation pipeline. He moves easily between product-facing dashboards for fleet safety and large-scale creator monetization systems, thriving where product, platform, and developer productivity intersect. Based in Pennsylvania, he pairs hands-on implementation with leadership experience from founding a dev studio to directing engineering through an acquisition. Notably, his instinct for borrowing elegant language concepts into practical systems gives teams a disciplined yet inventive toolkit for shipping reliable software.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
VisitationComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at Stevens Institute of TechnologyLaSalle College High School
English, Spanish, python, javascript, ruby, elm, rust, elixir
Github Skills (55)
mailinator9
command-line-interface9
waffle9
changelog9
django-angular8
cli8
cdn8
javascript7
css7
wrapping7
api7
crud7
js7
django-commands6
google-nearby5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
mc706/changelog-cli
Jun 2017 - Feb 2021
A Command Line Interface that makes it easy to manage a helpful Changelog
Contributions:18 reviews, 44 commits, 8 PRs in 3 years 8 months
changelogcommand-line-interfacehelpfulcli
mc706/task-burndown
Aug 2014 - Aug 2015
Contributions:13 commits, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 11 months
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