Ryan Vandersmith
Senior Software Engineer at DFINITY
Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRyan Vandersmith is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of full‑stack experience, currently leading Motoko language tooling and cross‑chain EVM integrations at DFINITY. He blends front‑end polish and back‑end language engineering—contributing to the Internet Computer developer portal and enhancing the Motoko language server for better code navigation and import resolution. Comfortable across React, Node.js, GraphQL and compiler tooling, he also runs UX research and statistical analysis of open‑source Motoko code to inform language design. A former freelance consultant, he has a track record building PWAs and developer-facing tools, and he mentors community grant recipients—bringing both product empathy and deep technical craft to developer experience problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Colorado School of MinesBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Colorado BoulderN/A, N/A, N/A, N/A at Rock Canyon High School
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Github Skills (22)
javascript10
git-repository10
language-server10
motoko10
github-repos10
react10
interpreter9
sass9
front-end-development9
docusaurus8
jsx8
wasm-pack8
rust-wasm8
flask6
android6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
dfinity/motoko
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Simple high-level language for writing Internet Computer canisters
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 reviews, 62 commits, 69 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the development of the Motoko language server, focusing on enhancing its capabilities for code navigation and import resolution. Their work includes improving definition lookup for external modules, specifically addressing edge cases with import identifiers and implementing support for explicit symbol imports. The user also added source locations and exported types to the `moc.js` parser output, as well as adding doc comments. Furthermore, the user updated the moc.js interface and added a configurable interpreter step limit.
high-levellanguage-leveldfinityinternethigh-level-language
dfinity/portal
Jul 2022 - Dec 2022
Internet Computer Developer Portal
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:46 reviews, 16 commits, 45 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily worked on front-end improvements and bug fixes for the DFINITY developer portal. They refactored promise handling in the `load_moc.ts` file, fixed JSX attributes within the React components, and configured Sass for light/dark themes. Additionally, the user merged branches and updated links within the site. Further work included improving Motoko output block styles and fixing SSR issues.
web-appweb-applicationdockerportalinternet
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