Ryan Nielson
Senior Full Stack Engineer at Thinkific
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Top SchoolRyan Nielson is a Senior Full Stack Engineer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, with 13 years of experience building scalable web applications across startups and enterprise teams. Currently at Thinkific after a six-year senior engineering tenure at Cvent, he blends back-end expertise with Laravel and PHP roots and hands-on front-end work to deliver end-to-end features. An active contributor to the widely used Laravel framework, he has improved routing, migration robustness, Redis queue behavior, and developer ergonomics like colored queue output. His background includes leading development teams and early-career systems work—from Rails and WordPress projects to animation tools and defense-related simulators—giving him breadth across domains and stacks. Notably, his time as an Army Reservist adds disciplined leadership and hardware-adjacent troubleshooting experience that complements his software craft.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Dalhousie University
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Github Skills (13)
url-routing10
php10
laravel10
queuing10
queue10
laravel-mix10
redis9
database-migration8
web-framework8
app-framework8
application-framework8
database-migrations8
testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
laravel/framework
Feb 2014 - Oct 2014
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Laravel framework by improving existing code and adding new features. Their work included updating documentation, adding new methods to the router, and fixing issues related to the migration process. They also introduced functionality to handle dot notation in input and add color highlighting to queue commands. In addition, the user added an expiration time configuration to Redis queue jobs.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
RyanNielson/prez
Jul 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:1 release, 21 commits, 1 push in 11 months
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