Ryker Reed
Software Engineer at Pivotal
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyker Reed is a software engineer with 10 years’ experience combining a linguistics research background and full‑stack product development to build elegant, user-focused systems. He has led frontend architecture and API design for cloud services (React/TypeScript) and modernized CI/CD and long‑term support workflows at VMware Tanzu, while contributing backend fixes to high‑visibility open source projects like CloudFoundry UAA. Comfortable moving between research, design collaboration, and production engineering, he pairs analytical rigor from MIT/Boston University linguistics training with practical web development from Dev Bootcamp. Passionate about educational and social-impact technologies, he has a track record of translating complex domain knowledge into accessible, beautiful interfaces that serve marginalized communities.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Linguistics, Bachelor’s Degree Linguistics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyWeb Development Intensive Computer Software Engineering, Web Development Intensive Computer Software Engineering at Dev BootcampMaster’s Degree Linguistics, Master’s Degree Linguistics at Boston University
Github Skills (11)
database-migrations10
javas10
database-migration10
flyway10
java10
spring-boot10
gradlew9
gradle9
testing8
oauth7
openid-connect6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/uaa
May 2020 - Jan 2021
CloudFoundry User Account and Authentication (UAA) Server
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:40 commits, 6 PRs, 24 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryker primarily contributed to the backend of the UAA server, focusing on database migration logic and configuration. They modified Java code, specifically within Flyway configuration, to address migration-related issues and testing. The user also added a Gradle task to create a migration running jar. Additionally, they refactored code to remove unnecessary beans.
openid-connectuaaoidcaccountauthentication
reedr3/ryker-portfolio
Jun 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:85 PRs, 50 pushes, 88 branches in 3 months
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