Ryan Melforge
Lead Site Reliability Engineer at Corporate Tools
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Melforge is a Lead Site Reliability Engineer and seasoned full-stack software leader with 10 years of experience building and stabilizing high-performance SaaS systems across startups and enterprises. He combines hands-on proficiency in Go, TypeScript, Angular/React, and cloud-native infrastructure with a track record of turning legacy monoliths into reliable, observable platforms that drive revenue—most notably shaping Vendasta’s ordering and billing services. At Corporate Tools he leads an SRE team modernizing large Rails systems, cutting frontend load times by ~85% and introducing structured logging and Terraform-based infra consistency. Ryan moves quickly from greenfield to production—delivering a CI platform in six months at Earthly and contributing to the popular Earthly open-source project with practical multi-architecture and CI improvements. He’s also an operator-founder who ran product, KPI-driven growth, and CQRS event-sourcing as CTO of Canadian Home Buyers’ Guide, maintaining 99% uptime through rigorous TDD and monitoring. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic technical vision, blameless incident culture, and mentoring teams to ship secure, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at University of Saskatchewan
Github Skills (13)
typescript10
nodejs10
docker10
typescripts10
dockers10
typescript-types10
cicd10
build-automation9
build-system9
build-tools8
go8
testing7
git7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
earthly/earthly
Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
Super simple build framework with fast, repeatable builds and an instantly familiar syntax – like Dockerfile and Makefile had a baby.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:161 reviews, 21 commits, 73 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the development of a Node.js and Typescript example, including integration tests, showcasing their ability to build and test full-stack applications. They addressed the `earthly sat select` command, improving its user experience by providing feedback when no satellite is selected and handling multiple satellite name inputs. The user also fixed an issue related to running Earthly on remote Docker hosts with different architectures, demonstrating their understanding of containerization and platform compatibility. Several commits relate to the CI/CD setup, including testing Podman and making workflows more reusable.
container-buildercontinuous-integrationeffortlessreproducible-buildsdocker
ipw969/CMPT317
Jan 2017 - Sep 2022
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 5 years 8 months
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