Ryan Millay
Staff Software Engineer at TravelJoy
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Millay is a Staff Software Engineer in Boston with 11 years of experience building scalable web and microservice architectures for high-throughput eCommerce systems. He has led teams and acted as solution architect for order management at Cimpress, shaping RESTful API design and AWS deployments that supported peak traffic and nearly $3B in annual revenue. Comfortable across front-end and back-end stacks, he has shipped SPA features, improved UX in open-source projects like CouchDB's Fauxton, and replaced legacy tooling to enhance clipboard and hover behaviors. At TravelJoy he continues to combine hands-on engineering with team leadership and mentoring, having previously managed engineers and influenced platform best practices. He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Northeastern and is known for blending pragmatic product-focused solutions with careful operational discipline.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at Northeastern UniversityBachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Computer Engineering at Vanderbilt University
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Github Skills (9)
css10
javascript10
lessc10
fauxton10
react9
ui-design8
accessibility6
databases6
database6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
apache/couchdb-fauxton
Oct 2016 - Jul 2017
Fauxton is the new Web UI for CouchDB
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 73 PRs, 115 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and improving the overall user experience of the Fauxton web UI for CouchDB. They implemented and refined CSS styles for hover effects and added new features like a permanent notification banner. The user also addressed specific issues, such as handling overflow behavior and making database names fully visible on hover. They replaced the zeroclipboard library with clipboard.js to improve clipboard interaction functionality.
erlangnetwork-clientjavascriptapachebig-data
millayr/couchdb-fauxton
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:103 pushes, 37 branches in 1 year 6 months
javascriptapachebig-datanodejsdatabase
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