Ryan Moran
Application Engineer
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Moran is an Application Engineer with 15 years of hands-on experience building reliable backend systems and automating CI/CD for cloud-native platforms. Based in Chicago and currently at Discover Financial Services, he specializes in buildpack and DevOps work—contributing to well-known Cloud Foundry projects for Python, Node.js, Ruby, and static sites—where he focused on test automation, tooling integration, and build process improvements. His contributions show a pragmatic blend of backend development and infrastructure automation, including integrating runtime agents like AppDynamics and improving integration test workflows. A UIC computer science alum, Ryan pairs deep scripting and Go experience with a strong emphasis on reproducible builds and observability, often tackling thorny build and dependency issues that surface only in large-scale platform deployments.
15 years of coding experience
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Illinois at Chicago
Github Skills (33)
ruby-rails10
docker10
cloud-foundry10
testing10
vb610
command-line-interface10
bash10
rails10
go-testing10
dockers10
cicd10
ruby10
vbe10
vbnet10
automation10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/nodejs-buildpack
Sep 2019 - Nov 2022
Cloud Foundry buildpack for Node.js
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:23 reviews, 32 commits, 55 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the integration of the AppDynamics agent within the Node.js buildpack, addressing configuration issues and testing. The user corrected settings for the appdynamics npm package and implemented changes to the test suite to accommodate the agent's requirements. Their work also involved reverting the AppDynamics changes, which shows they are responsible for buildpack configuration and testing of agent integrations.
foundrynode-jscloud-foundryv2bbuildpack
NetSweet/netsuite
Dec 2011 - Jan 2012
NetSuite SuiteTalk API Wrapper
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:196 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan's contributions center around developing the NetSuite SuiteTalk API wrapper. They implemented the initial testing framework and made changes to support customer records. The user's work involved core code changes in the library and the addition of features, with a clear focus on improving the NetSuite API integration through Ruby code.
apierpnetsuite-apirailsapi-wrapper
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