Ryan Wood is a seasoned software architect and entrepreneur with 18 years of experience building Ruby on Rails products and companies. As co-founder of DeerLab and former CTO/co-founder of MoonClerk, he blends hands-on full-stack development with product-focused system design for SaaS and embedded camera analytics. He leads a boutique consulting practice, Sourcescape, architecting resilient web applications and shipping features that span from image handling to payment flows. An active open-source contributor to Refinery CMS, he has improved image management and S3 integrations—work that reflects his knack for practical, maintainable solutions. Based in Greer, SC, he pairs technical depth with a background in counseling and philosophy, bringing unusually strong people and product empathy to engineering leadership.
18 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. Counseling, M.A. Counseling at Reformed Theological Seminary
HS Diploma General, HS Diploma General at Bolles High School
B.A. Philosophy / Theology, B.A. Philosophy / Theology at Wheaton College
An extendable Ruby on Rails CMS that supports Rails 6.0+
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Full-stack Developer
Contributions:14 commits in 2 days
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Refinery CMS project by implementing and refining image management functionalities. Their work involved adding a grid view for image display and fixing issues related to image handling when using Amazon S3 for storage. They also merged updates and refactored plugin logic, contributing to the overall maintainability and functionality of the CMS. Further contributions included adding an Admin User Manager.
A simple, clean DSL for describing, writing, and parsing fixed-width text files.
Contributions:38 commits, 1 comment in 2 years 9 months
apldslfixed-widthwidthclean
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