Steve Rydz
Web Engineer III at Canonical
Nottingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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SeniorSteve Rydz is a seasoned web engineer with 13 years of professional experience and a 15-year background in web development, now focused at Canonical where he owns and evolves the Snap Store and Dedicated Snap Store offerings. He combines front-end and back-end expertise—having migrated major apps from AngularJS to React/Redux and contributed backend fixes to high-profile projects like the ubuntu.com codebase—to deliver cohesive, user-facing store and developer publishing tooling. Steve has led cross-functional projects that unify disparate product pages into consistent applications and built internal marketplaces and publishing tools used by app developers and customers. His career spans agency client work, media-industry tooling, e-commerce re-platforming, and open source contributions, showing a pragmatic balance of design-driven implementation and scalable architecture. Based in Nottingham, he’s comfortable moving between marketing-facing websites and complex provisioning and marketplace systems, and he often surfaces subtle UX and design fixes alongside legal/service content updates.
13 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (5)
html10
web-development9
css6
ckeditor6
website-design5
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/ubuntu.com
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
The official website for the Ubuntu operating system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:130 reviews, 1368 commits, 1031 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Steve's commits primarily involve modifications to code within the `templates/legal/bootstack/service-description.html` and `templates/legal/ubuntu-advantage/service-description.html` files. These changes appear to be related to updating legal and service descriptions. The user also appears to be fixing design issues.
operating-systemoperatingweb-and-designubuntu
steverydz/ubuntu.com
Mar 2018 - Nov 2023
Ubuntu website project using Vanilla Framework
Contributions:1101 pushes, 1100 branches in 5 years 9 months
javascriptproject-websitevanilla-frameworkubuntuvanilla
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