Ryan Wheale
Full Stack Engineer at Ryan Wheale
Boulder, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Wheale is a Full Stack Engineer based in Boulder, Colorado, with over 13 years of professional experience and 18 years coding across diverse stacks. He specializes in responsive single-page apps, reactive UIs, RESTful services, and data modeling, and has a track record of modernizing codebases—most recently helping migrate a large multi-repo system to a monorepo. Ryan contributes to open source (notably fixing templating and component issues in the CanJS project) and builds accessible, production-ready web components and microservice-backed front ends. He combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and repository design, having led monorepo and DX improvements at both startups and established companies. Experimenting with AI-driven agentic workflows, he treats code as a form of expression and enjoys solving tricky problems across the full stack.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Lakeside High School - Evans, GABachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music Business, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Music Business at Belmont University
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Github Skills (30)
mustache10
javascript10
npm10
component-development10
gulp10
nodejs10
templating-engine10
canjs10
image9
web-components9
eslint9
jquery9
regex9
typescript9
css9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
canjs/canjs
Sep 2015 - Dec 2018
Build CRUD apps in fewer lines of code.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 23 pushes in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily addressed issues and implemented features within the CanJS framework, focusing on the Mustache templating engine and component functionality. Their contributions included fixing bugs in the `unless` helper, reverting a change, and allowing helpers to return number 0 as a value. Further work involved updating various demo pages and core references to remove legacy view code, specifically mustache and ejs.
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canjs/can-react
Nov 2015 - Feb 2016
A compatibility layer required to enable donejs-react.
Contributions:47 commits, 29 pushes, 17 tags in 3 months
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