Ryan Null
Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Null is a Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn with 13 years of experience designing and leading systems that provide policy and coordination across large engineering organizations. He has progressed from senior UI engineer and manager roles into technical leadership, blending hands-on engineering with cross-team orchestration to make developer workflows more reliable at scale. A pragmatic contributor to open source, he improved testing and automation in the well-known CasperJS project, strengthening test coverage and CI resilience. Based in California, he brings a background in product-focused development for broadcast and telecom along with early hands-on operations running a local IT business, a combination that gives him both systems empathy and customer-focused pragmatism.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Old Dominion University
English, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
test-framework10
javascript10
xunit10
test-automation10
testing10
documentation9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
casperjs/casperjs
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
CasperJS is no longer actively maintained. Navigation scripting and testing utility for PhantomJS and SlimerJS
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 releases, 39 commits, 37 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to improving the testing framework and test coverage of the CasperJS project. Their work involved fixing bugs related to popup handling, XML reporting, and ensuring the correct output from test executions. They added new tests to validate the `--xunit` flag for generating test reports and updated documentation related to testing and known issues. This involved modifying existing tests and adding new test suites.
actively-maintainedscriptingslimerjstestingphantomjs
vzoa/ids
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
The Open Source IDS used by vZOA on VATSIM.
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
vatsimids
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