Ryan Shillington
Co-Founder And CTO at QbDVision
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Shillington is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder/CTO with over 20 years of hands-on experience building SaaS products and leading distributed engineering teams. He has repeatedly scaled products into long-lived production systems used by hundreds of thousands across 80+ countries, and grew a client base at QbDVision with flagship customers like Bayer and Sanofi. Ryan combines deep technical expertise in architecture, security and testing with executive skills in hiring, coaching and investor relations, having built a 17-engineer team spanning nine countries and delivered 360k lines of production code. He has a track record of cost-saving cloud migrations and architecture redesigns—such as converting data centers to AWS saving $1.3M annually—and inventing documentation and testing processes that supported successful regulatory submissions. Known for mentoring individuals into “A” players, his biggest wins are people-focused: satisfied clients, promoted engineers, and high-return investors. Based in Cincinnati and trained at the University of Waterloo, he blends startup grit with enterprise discipline to turn complex technical challenges into auditable, business-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma Getting out of Saskatchewan, High School Diploma Getting out of Saskatchewan at Campbell CollegiateBachelor of Mathematics Computer Science IT, Bachelor of Mathematics Computer Science IT at University of Waterloo
English, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
jsonb10
testing10
command-line-interface10
automation10
bundler10
appium10
serverless10
browser10
pdfkit10
d110
json10
cucumber10
commonjs10
oracle-db10
splitting10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
CherryCircle/chimpy
May 2019 - Jan 2021
Develop acceptance tests & end-to-end tests with realtime feedback.
Contributions:3 releases, 15 pushes, 10 branches in 1 year 8 months
realtimetest-automationacceptance-testsend-to-endtesting
CherryCircle/fda-docs
Oct 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 5 pushes, 4 tags in 2 years 7 months
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