Ryan Winchester
Senior Software Engineer at Addigence
Atlantic, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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SeniorRyan Winchester is a Senior Software Engineer based in Atlantic Nova Scotia with 12 years building backend systems, particularly in Elixir and the BEAM ecosystem. He has led architecture and development for product and data-driven platforms—from vehicle data pipelines and distributed Elixir services for Apple to portfolio-management tooling—while pragmatically using JavaScript/TypeScript for rich UIs. A persistent open-source contributor, Ryan has improved core projects like Laravel's Eloquent and Elixir libraries such as HTTPoison, adding Collection support and refining request/response types. He combines rigorous backend design (gRPC, Pub/Sub, PostgreSQL, Redis) with practical deployment and integration experience, and is known for preferring elegant BEAM solutions even when forced to tolerate JavaScript.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Stackoverflow
11,907reputation
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90answers
13questions
elixir
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momentjs
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datetime
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phoenix-framework
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routes
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jquery
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Github Skills (35)
datetime10
programming-language10
jquery10
apidoc10
eloquent10
elixir10
laravel-mix10
api-client10
testing10
http10
laravel10
eloquent-orm10
momentjs10
http-client10
php10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
HubSpot/hubspot-php
Nov 2014 - Oct 2017
HubSpot PHP API Client
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:231 commits, 91 PRs, 272 pushes in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the HubSpot PHP API Client by modifying the `HubSpotService.php` file, refactoring and adding functionalities. The user added HTTP client implementations using Curl and Guzzle and implemented methods for interacting with the API. Additional changes included cleanup and fixing string escapes.
api-clientapiapi-wrapperphpsdk
laravel/framework
Jun 2015 - Oct 2016
The Laravel Framework.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 9 PRs, 31 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on enhancing the Laravel framework's Eloquent ORM and testing functionalities. Their contributions included allowing `Collection` arguments within the `HasOneOrMany::saveMany` method, alongside refactoring and optimizing existing code. The user also addressed testing related to the CrawlerTrait class, improving its flexibility and functionality, particularly around interacting with input and textarea elements. They additionally made enhancements to the `BelongsToMany` relation in Eloquent.
laravel-frameworklaravelphpframework
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