Ryan Waskiewicz
Senior Software Engineer at MBTA
United States
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Top SchoolRyan Waskiewicz is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building robust frontend and backend systems, currently contributing to the MBTA after recent roles as Principal Architect and Principal Engineer. He has led architecture and product-led initiatives using modern stacks like Next.js, TypeScript, Drizzle, and Postgres, and revived testing practices with Testcontainers against C# microservices. At Ionic he led StencilJS development and community stewardship—work that included compiler/runtime fixes and documentation leadership—while his open-source contributions to high-profile projects like palantir/tslint demonstrate a focus on linting, code quality, and tooling. At Argo AI he architected a patented static analysis framework for safety-critical mapping data and introduced TypeScript organization-wide, showing a blend of research-grade engineering and practical delivery. Known for reviving products and teams, he pairs hands-on coding (from DOM rendering fixes to CI/CD DSL reverse-engineering) with clear technical writing and developer advocacy.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at University of Pittsburgh
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Github Skills (26)
javascript10
static-analysis10
testing10
css10
typescript10
web-components10
stencil10
software-quality10
dom-manipulation10
front-end-development10
typescript-types10
linting10
typescripts10
documentation10
jsx9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
stenciljs/site
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Stencil site and documentation source.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:596 reviews, 181 commits, 470 PRs in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributes to the Stencil documentation site. Their work focuses on updating and maintaining documentation, including updating copyright information, revising the style guide, combining design system documentation, removing outdated resources, and creating versioned documentation for Stencil v2. Furthermore, they updated the site's tagline and corrected logic for excluding docs in versioned directories. These changes directly impact the clarity and accuracy of the Stencil documentation.
stencilstenciljs
stenciljs/core
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
A toolchain for building scalable, enterprise-ready component systems on top of TypeScript and Web Component standards. Stencil components can be distributed natively to React, Angular, Vue, and traditional web developers from a single, framework-agnostic codebase.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:75 releases, 2126 reviews, 529 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryan focused on enhancing the Stencil.js core library by addressing issues related to component rendering and styling. The contributions include fixes for text content within scoped components using slots, which involved modifying DOM manipulation logic and handling edge cases with text nodes. The user also ensured styles were applied before render, improving component styling consistency, and addressed CSS variable handling for shadow DOM components. Additionally, the user added support for browser features by adding attributes and fixes to existing ones.
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