Ryan Oberholzer
Engineering Lead at Joy
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
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SeniorRyan Oberholzer is a senior product line manager and seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building and scaling high-performance applications for millions of users. Based in Cape Town, he blends hands-on engineering with product leadership across roles at Platform45, LiquidM, OVEX and multiple startups, often leading projects with strict TDD and Scrum practices. He has a strong track record in technical leadership—moving from senior engineer to engineering and technical lead roles—and focuses on delivering reliable, scalable systems. Ryan stays current across many languages and technologies and enjoys contributing to open source in his spare time. Outside of work he kite surfs on weekends, a pastime that reflects his appetite for calculated risk and continual learning.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Afrikaans
Github Skills (17)
fsm-library10
state-machine9
hue9
fsm9
state-management8
philips-hue8
backlight7
brightness6
ruby5
trainer3
finance1
trading-bot1
javascript1
trading1
api1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ryanza/stateflow
Jul 2013 - Apr 2022
State machine that allows dynamic transitions for business workflows
Contributions:10 commits, 8 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 years 10 months
state-managementfsm-libraryfsmstatemachinetransitions
liquidm/ember-sticky-element
May 2019 - May 2019
An ember component that mimics the functionality of `position: sticky`
Contributions:9 pushes in 1 day
ember-addonmimicspositionduplicateemberjs
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