Ryan Mcgeary
Chief Technology Officer at McGeary Consulting Group
Lafayette, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Mcgeary is a seasoned technology leader and hands-on software engineer with 18+ years building and architecting web applications, currently serving as CTO of ZeroShadow and founder of McGeary Consulting Group. He blends full-stack expertise in Ruby/Rails, Node.js, and cloud platforms with a founder’s instinct for product-market fit—launching businesses like BusyConf and the viral LMGTFY parody. A prolific open-source contributor, Ryan authored the original jquery-timeago plugin and has improved key Ruby libraries (shoulda, clearance, carrierwave-mongoid), demonstrating attention to developer experience and test automation. He’s especially skilled at simplifying complex systems and rearchitecting monoliths into maintainable platforms for finance, media, and security customers. Based in Lafayette, Colorado, he pairs technical leadership with a pragmatic focus on shipping what matters, and outside work he’s an avid CrossFit enthusiast and amateur triathlete—bringing the same discipline to engineering and team culture.
18 years of coding experience
24 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of Virginia
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Github Skills (74)
testing10
rspec10
authentication10
test-framework10
refactor10
ruby10
jtest10
activerecord10
rack10
refactoring10
ruby-on-rails10
javascript10
twitter10
jquery10
carrierwave10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
bokmann/font-awesome-rails
Jan 2013 - Jun 2022
the font-awesome font bundled as an asset for the rails asset pipeline
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 1 review, 220 commits in 9 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily worked on integrating and maintaining the Font Awesome icon library within a Ruby on Rails application. Their contributions included upgrading the library to newer versions, modifying the versioning scheme, and creating tests to ensure the proper serving and availability of font and stylesheet assets within the asset pipeline. They also implemented icon helpers to simplify the integration of Font Awesome icons into the application's views. The user's work ensured the project's front-end components could easily utilize the visual elements of the Font Awesome library.
rails-asset-pipelinepipelinerailsfontasset
carrierwaveuploader/carrierwave-mongoid
Mar 2012 - Jan 2023
Mongoid support for CarrierWave
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 1 review, 165 commits in 10 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `carrierwave-mongoid` repository by addressing issues and enhancing functionality related to the integration of CarrierWave with Mongoid. Their work includes fixing specs, adding support for embedded documents, and addressing URL generation issues within the GridFS storage adapter. These changes focused on improving the reliability and feature set of the library, particularly concerning file storage and retrieval within a Mongoid environment. The user also bumped versions and refactored code.
carrierwavemongoidmongodb
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