Ryan Ovas
Founder And Tech Lead at Polar Labs
Canada
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Top SchoolRyan Ovas is a founder and tech lead with 12 years of hands-on experience building full‑stack, data-driven applications and digital products. He leads Polar Labs, a Snowflake service partner that turns chaotic data into production-grade, maintainable systems, and previously shipped product and engineering work at startups like RouteThis and Babbly. A designer-turned-developer and longtime educator, he blends UX-first front-end craft with backend engineering and CI/CD discipline, which helps teams transition ownership cleanly. Ryan has built and co-founded multiple ventures since his late teens, travels full-time as a digital nomad, and creates travel content on the side—bringing a global, user-centric perspective to technical problems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Photography, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Photography at Sheridan CollegeWeb Design and Interactive Media, Web Design and Interactive Media at Humber College
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
desktop10
material-design10
windows10
dart10
kubernetes10
mobile10
cross-platform10
macos10
ios10
go10
android10
flutter10
docker10
packaging10
thin9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mikeovas/traverse_the_dom_exercise
May 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 1 branch in 1 year
ryanovas/alert-alert
Apr 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:3 commits in 4 months
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