Ryan Selk
Senior Software Engineer at Whiplash
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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Top SchoolRyan Selk is a Senior Software Engineer and founder based in Edmonton with 12 years of professional experience building and operating full-stack, high-availability systems. He designs and ships mission-critical software—from warehouse robotics orchestration at Whiplash to client solutions through his own consultancy—combining backend, frontend, database, API and DevOps expertise. Comfortable across Ruby, Python, JavaScript, C++ and Elixir, he also manages infrastructure at scale using Docker, Ansible, Chef, Terraform and AWS while negotiating SLAs and compliance constraints. Beyond hands-on coding he mentors engineers, recruits talent and maintains client relationships, bringing both technical depth and people leadership. A lifelong technologist who launched his first website in 1999, he pairs a Computer Science & GIS degree with a practical, systems-oriented mindset that favors resilient, operationally sound software.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science & GIS, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science & GIS at The University of Lethbridge
English
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Github Skills (53)
sidekiq9
jruby8
tree-structure8
rgeo8
ruby8
hierarchy8
ancestry8
migration7
rails7
adapter7
nested-set7
migrate7
activemodel7
generics6
activerecord6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rselk/rselk.github.io
Sep 2014 - Sep 2019
Contributions:81 commits, 86 pushes in 5 years
rselk/myconfigs
Jan 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:43 pushes in 2 years 6 months
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