Ryan Schwers
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorRyan Schwers is a Staff Software Engineer in San Francisco with 15 years of experience building high-performance web platforms and production AI for healthcare. He combines deep Node/TypeScript and WASM expertise with a track record of leading web architecture at scale—most notably driving a stack redesign at Reddit that cut load times and server utilization by roughly 50%. Now at Ambience he partners with AI researchers to put practical clinician-facing AI into production, bringing both infrastructure smarts and front-end polish. An active open-source contributor, he has improved core developer-facing libraries like styled-components with performance and caching fixes. He pairs a rigorous Northeastern background in math and CS with early-stage startup experience (first employee at Pushbullet), making him comfortable across research, product, and execution.
16 years of coding experience
Github Skills (7)
css-in-js10
javascript10
styled-components10
react10
props9
prop9
css8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
styled-components/styled-components
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Fast, expressive styling for React. Server components, client components, streaming SSR, React Native—one API.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:12 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ryan focused on refactoring and improving the internal workings of styled-components. They removed an abstract base class and fixed undefined checks, modifying the StyledComponent and StyledNativeComponent files. Furthermore, they implemented performance optimizations by switching to a low-allocation broadcast mechanism in the ThemeProvider. The user also addressed static caching issues related to styled components.
oneapireactreact-nativecss-in-jsstyled-components
reddit-archive/art-gallery
May 2016 - Jun 2016
Submodule for common styles and assets used in reddit projects
Contributions:15 commits in 1 month
reddit
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