Ryan Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Zelis
Littleton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Smith is a Senior Software Engineer based in Littleton, Colorado, bringing a blend of technical grit and real-world resilience forged through an unconventional career path from mental health and criminal justice program management to software engineering. With a Turing School software engineering background and over 4 years in professional development roles culminating at Zelis, he focuses on pragmatic, collaborative delivery and is deepening expertise in Ruby and Rails. Ryan pairs disciplined problem-solving and stakeholder collaboration—honed coordinating complex court and social service programs—with a weekend habit of tackling 14,000+ foot peaks and family life, reflecting his persistence and work-life adaptability. Known for valuing transparency and quality over quantity, he aims to build software that meaningfully impacts users and organizations.
3 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate, Computer Software Engineering, Graduate, Computer Software Engineering at Turing School of Software & DesignBachelor of Arts - BA, PSYCHOLOGY, Bachelor of Arts - BA, PSYCHOLOGY at Metropolitan State University of Denver
Github Skills (6)
ruby6
backend5
javascript5
stateless5
lodash4
nodejs4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
RyanChrisSmith/little-esty-shop
Sep 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:10 reviews, 74 PRs, 76 pushes in 1 month
RyanChrisSmith/enigma
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:32 PRs, 28 pushes, 17 branches in 6 days
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