Ryan Wooden is a senior software developer with 16 years of experience building high-performance, scalable back-end systems and platforms, currently contributing at Shopify. He has led architecture and rebuild efforts that improved processing capacity by over 10x, and has deep hands-on experience across languages and tooling—from Python/Django and Java to C++/Qt, Docker, CI/CD, and AWS. Comfortable operating at the intersection of development and operations, he regularly diagnoses production performance bottlenecks and architects durable fixes. An adaptable engineer, Ryan has a track record of quickly adopting new paradigms and shipping pragmatic solutions, including improving macOS support for the popular open-source clipboard manager CopyQ. Based in Hantsport, Nova Scotia, he combines the discipline of enterprise-grade systems work with a hacker’s knack for practical cross-platform compatibility.
16 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BCSH, Computer Science, BCSH, Computer Science at Acadia University
Contributions:14 releases, 112 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on adding and improving macOS support for the clipboard manager CopyQ. This involved implementing stubbed macOS platform functionality, making the application compatible with Qt 5.2 on macOS 10.9, and resolving issues related to menu and dock icon behavior. Furthermore, the user worked on integrating and improving the application's ability to auto-start, package plugins correctly, and address bugs related to clipboard monitoring on the platform.
Contributions:715 commits, 154 pushes in 12 years 7 months
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Ryan Wooden - Senior Software Developer at Shopify