Ryan Wilcox
Senior Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
West Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Wilcox is a senior software engineer and architect with nearly two decades of experience building full-stack systems, leading cross-team technical initiatives, and scaling developer productivity across enterprises like Disney, Apollo GraphQL, Citizens Bank, and ESPN. He blends hands-on engineering—spanning Rust, Kotlin, TypeScript, Java, Node.js, and cloud infrastructure—with practical platform and SDLC design to make deployments predictable, cost-effective, and self-serve. Ryan has driven measurable impact such as cutting CI costs by 60%, accelerating supergraph adoption from months to days with Rust-based tooling, and modernizing large-scale APIs and data platforms. He pairs an architect’s systems thinking with a team-first mindset, creating release engineering workflows, developer tooling, and cost observability that respect organizational culture as a design constraint. An active contributor to open-source Git tooling (objective-git bindings), he brings both low-level repo experience and high-level operational leadership to complex, distributed systems.
17 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BS Management Information Systems, BS Management Information Systems at Rochester Institute of Technology
English
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Github Skills (22)
objective-c10
libgit210
libgit2sharp10
gitconfig10
post9
asynchronous9
git9
python9
ruby9
sailsjs9
wxwidgets9
nodejs9
ruby-on-rails9
macos9
csv9
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
libgit2/objective-git
Jan 2012 - Feb 2012
Objective-C bindings to libgit2
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `objective-git` repository by implementing new methods for configuration management, including adding and retrieving configuration keys and remote information. They added methods to add remotes and branches, updating the Git configuration files. Furthermore, the user introduced functions for retrieving configuration keys and remote names, enhancing the repository's capabilities. They also added utility functions related to file status and repository URL retrieval.
objective-cc-bindingslibgit2ioscocoa
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