Ryan Wendell
Sr. Associate, SW Eng
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Wendell is a software engineer with over a decade of professional experience and more than five years in dedicated software engineering roles at Northern Trust, where he progressed from Sr. Analyst to Senior Associate. He has startup experience from BluBracket (acquired by HashiCorp) and a background delivering practical solutions in both product and business-process contexts. Based in Chicago, he blends enterprise-grade engineering with an appreciation for open source—he’s the owner of the SlippiOS project and describes himself as a FOSS enthusiast. His career path reflects both hands-on coding and operational sensibilities, informed by a computer science degree from Iowa State University and early customer-facing roles that sharpened his communication. Peers would describe him as a pragmatic builder who navigates complex codebases and cross-functional priorities to ship reliable software.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Iowa State University
Github Skills (45)
image-converter10
image9
color-scheme9
color-palette9
wayland9
compression9
cli8
ocr8
image-processing8
multiple-versions7
pixel-art7
go7
image-compression7
taskbar6
cydiasubstrate6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
rwendell/rwendell
Oct 2022 - May 2025
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
rwendell/league-game-tracker
Jul 2023 - May 2025
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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