Ryan Wallace
Chief Information Officer
Trenton, New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Wallace is a seasoned technology leader and Chief Information Officer with 17 years of experience building and guiding web and data-driven applications from the codebase to the C-suite. He co-founded Culture Code Software Consulting to deliver custom web solutions for cultural and university sectors and has led development initiatives like the Reciprocal Research Network at UBC. As CIO of Combinaut since 2014 he blends strategic IT leadership with hands-on engineering, particularly in backend search and indexing work. An active open-source contributor, he improved facetting and query efficiency in the well-known Sunspot Solr integration for Ruby, demonstrating attention to search performance and library stability. Trained as a computer engineer at UBC, he pairs rigorous technical foundations with a track record of translating complex research and cultural requirements into reliable production systems. Colleagues would describe him as an operator who still enjoys digging into core query logic and build tooling to keep systems robust.
17 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (5)
solr-search10
rspec10
search-engine10
solr10
ruby10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
sunspot/sunspot
Jul 2012 - Nov 2019
Solr-powered search for Ruby objects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 7 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Sunspot search library, focusing on improving facetting functionality and search query efficiency. They made changes to the core dismax query logic, added prefix escaping for facets, and fixed related tests. Additionally, the user addressed gem building issues, bumped the version, and removed an unnecessary rake prompt related to reindexing, ensuring the library's overall stability and usability.
searchrubysolrsolr-search-enginesunspot
rrn/acts_as_sourceable
Apr 2015 - Jan 2023
Allows the RRN to perform garbage collection on categories that are no longer referenced by any items
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes in 7 years 10 months
garbage-collectiongarbagebengali
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