Summary
Ryder Timberlake is a Senior Agile Developer with a decade of experience building resilient, maintainable web services and coaching teams to deliver better software. Based in Bloomington, Indiana, he blends hands-on full‑stack work (TypeScript, NestJS, Vue, React, Java, Rails, and relational databases) with mentorship and agile coaching to improve team cohesion and product outcomes. His background spans product engineering and test automation at Salesforce to consulting and leadership at Yakcellent Solutions and Vector Solutions, where he emphasizes clear, kind communication as part of sustainable engineering practices. Fluent in Spanish and grounded in linguistics, he brings uncommon strengths in cross-cultural communication and careful specification that improve collaboration and reduce rework. He describes himself simply as a human “building thingies,” which belies a pragmatic, empathetic approach to solving complex technical and team challenges.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
B.A., Linguistics, Spanish, B.A., Linguistics, Spanish at Indiana University Bloomington
Full-Stack Development, Full-Stack Development at The Iron Yard
English, Spanish, Portuguese, French