Rylan Bowers
Senior Developer at BeneFix
Longmont, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRylan Bowers is a senior developer with 14 years of experience building full-stack web applications from startups to consulting engagements, currently based in Longmont/Niwot, Colorado. He specializes in Ruby on Rails and front-end technologies, with a track record of refactoring and evolving legacy systems—evidenced by contributions to the rubycentral/cfp-app where he modernized database migrations and authentication wiring. Rylan balances client-facing consulting at Resco Solutions with a senior engineering role at BeneFix, and he leads product and open-source work for Boulder Food Rescue’s scheduling robot. He favors test-driven, standards-based development and Agile collaboration, helping teams deliver maintainable code and clear client communication. Beyond shipping features, he often focuses on long-term code health and operational details like schema design and deployment readiness.
14 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (12)
database-migrations10
activerecord10
devise10
database-migration10
rails10
ruby-on-rails10
pundit6
php6
javascript6
forms6
ruby6
recaptcha6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rubycentral/cfp-app
Jun 2016 - Nov 2018
Rails app for managing a conference CFP
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:60 commits, 7 PRs, 4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Rylan primarily focused on refactoring and updating the Rails application's database schema and migrations. They removed single-column migrations, consolidated them into table-creation migrations, and renamed database columns and associated model attributes. The user updated the database schema to accommodate changes for user authentication using Devise. Furthermore, they updated the routes and views.
ruby-on-railsrails-apprailsrubycfp
rylanb/boulder-ruby-org
Feb 2019 - Feb 2025
Middleman site for boulder-ruby.org
Contributions:1 review, 8 PRs, 78 pushes in 6 years 1 month
railsbouldermiddlemanruby
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