Ryan Szrama
CEO at Centarro
Greenville, South Carolina, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Szrama is a founder-CEO and seasoned web application developer with 16 years specializing in open-source eCommerce on Drupal, best known as the creator of Drupal Commerce and current CEO of Centarro. He has built and led a 50,000+ strong community of users and contributors, and continues to ship core platform features such as the CommerceStore entity for Drupal Commerce 2.x. Ryan blends product leadership, consultancy, and hands-on engineering across PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, REST, and theming work in Drupal core, enabling both SaaS product launches and bespoke eCommerce solutions. He acquired and rebranded Commerce Guys into Centarro to broaden commercial offerings like Centarro Toolbox, signaling a strategic shift from project stewardship to scalable service delivery. A former Drupal Association board member, he pairs public-facing advocacy and training with deep technical contributions that improve accessibility, UI consistency, and core data models. Based in Greenville, SC, he brings an operator’s grit to open-source ecosystems, turning community-driven projects into sustainable businesses.
16 years of coding experience
BA, BA at Boyce CollegeHigh School, High School at North Bullitt High School
English
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Github Skills (21)
drupal10
javascript10
develop10
theming10
css10
entities10
php10
front-end-development10
twig10
entity10
apidoc9
object-oriented-programming9
api9
accessibility8
authorizenet6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
drupalcommerce/commerce
Mar 2011 - Apr 2016
Commerce 2.x development
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:478 commits, 8 comments in 5 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on developing the Commerce Store entity within the Drupal Commerce 2.x project. Their main contribution was the addition of the CommerceStore entity, including its interface and form implementation. The user's work involves defining fields, interfaces, and forms for the store entity, which is crucial for the core functionality of the e-commerce platform. This suggests a focus on building fundamental data structures and core application logic.
commerce2-x
drupal/drupal
Feb 2016 - Aug 2017
Verbatim mirror of the git.drupal.org repository for Drupal core. Please see the https://github.com/drupal/drupal#contributing. PRs are not accepted on GitHub.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:101 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Drupal core, focusing on front-end and theming-related changes. Their commits demonstrate an understanding of Twig templating, CSS, and JavaScript. Contributions include fixing styling issues, improving the user interface, and ensuring proper rendering and accessibility of elements within the Bartik and Seven themes.
symfony-consolephpdrupalprsdrupal-8
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