Ryan Ong
Staff Software Engineer at Gusto
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Ong is a Staff Software Engineer with 15 years of experience building resilient web applications and shaping engineering teams to deliver sustainably. He has a strong track record helping startups scale—five of eight companies he’s worked with reached acquisition or IPO, and he materially contributed to three of those outcomes. Ryan excels at aligning product vision with technical capability by designing flexible, self-aware processes that adapt to team size and goals, enabling steady delivery with the ability to sprint when needed. His hands-on background spans full-stack system design, billing and experimentation platforms, isomorphic JS for Rails, and leading security and accessibility efforts. Based in New York, he blends engineering craft with pragmatic leadership, often stepping into architectural roles that turn firefighting codebases into maintainable platforms.
16 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Business Administration and Management, General at Skidmore College
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Github Skills (114)
testing10
rspec10
ruby10
command-line-tool10
linux10
mongodb-driver10
html10
rails10
capybara10
mocking10
mongoid10
nokogiri10
database-cleaner10
mongodb10
libxml210
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ryanong/bit_mask
Feb 2011 - Apr 2021
Contributions:73 commits, 1 push in 10 years 4 months
ryanong/mongoid_spacial
Jun 2011 - Jan 2012
A Mongoid Extention that simplifies and adds support for MongoDB Geo Spacial Calculations.
Contributions:92 commits, 2 comments in 6 months
mongodbmongoid
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