Ryan Sechrest
Senior Vice President Of Corporate Web Infrastructure
Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Sechrest is a seasoned software engineer and senior technology leader with 12+ years building web infrastructure, currently serving as Senior Vice President of Corporate Web Infrastructure at FleishmanHillard. He combines hands-on expertise in PHP, Laravel, WordPress multisite, JS, and Linux server automation with strategic cloud migrations to AWS and CI/CD via GitLab and Azure DevOps. Ryan has architected object-oriented frameworks that model WordPress content as objects, built REST APIs to surface PeopleSoft data, and delivered multi-language, mobile-friendly sites at scale while mentoring engineers and driving best practices. Equally comfortable writing Bash automation and managing Apache/MySQL stacks as he is designing UI-level themes with Twig and responsive frameworks, he has a rare mix of ops-to-front-end fluency. Outside core development he’s applied his skills to talent-tracking tools, Salesforce/Pardot integrations, and security monitoring (OSSEC), showing a pragmatic focus on measurable outcomes and stakeholder alignment.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, General Studies, 3.5, Associate’s Degree, General Studies, 3.5 at St. Louis Community CollegeBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at Webster University
English, German
Github Skills (26)
web-application10
litespeed10
ghost10
cyberpanel10
webserver10
openlitespeed10
cms9
javascript9
private-repository9
nodejs9
photo-management9
journalism8
ember8
wordpress-plugin8
audience7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ryansechrest/github-updater-demo
Apr 2024 - Oct 2025
WordPress plugin to demonstrate how `GitHubUpdater` can enable WordPress to check for and update a custom plugin that's hosted in either a public or private repository on GitHub.
Contributions:9 releases, 38 pushes, 11 tags in 1 year 6 months
private-repositorywordpresswordpress-plugingithub-updater
ryansechrest/charm
Apr 2025 - Sep 2025
Contributions:56 pushes, 3 branches in 4 months
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