Todd Lynam
Staff Software Engineer at Brightline
Kailua, Hawaii, United States
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Top SchoolTodd Lynam is a Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building scalable web platforms and driving cross-team initiatives from conception to MVP. He has a track record of elevating engineering organizations—scaling teams, authoring Rails pattern guides, and securing buy-in for modularization and platformization efforts. Todd pairs hands-on full-stack development (notably large Postgres migrations and performance-focused tooling) with pragmatic architecture decisions and incident response improvements. He’s a practiced mentor and teacher who organized recurring learning sessions, helped engineers earn promotions, and led hackathon-winning teams. Based in Kailua, Hawaii, he brings a bias for measurable operational improvements—CI times, test suite speed, and automated maintenance—and a history of turning operational pain points into repeatable solutions.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Operations and Management Information Systems, Bachelor's Degree Operations and Management Information Systems at Santa Clara UniversityStudy Abroad Management Information Systems General, Study Abroad Management Information Systems General at University of AucklandGraduate Certificate in Software Design and Development, Graduate Certificate in Software Design and Development at University of Washington Bothell
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (71)
nested-forms10
dynamic-forms10
multithreading10
ruby10
activerecord10
rack10
ruby-on-rails10
jquery10
rubygems10
relic10
audit10
rails10
agent10
package10
package-manager10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
aurorasolar/geometry
Dec 2019 - Oct 2024
Contributions:6 reviews, 7 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 11 months
geometricprimitivesruby
tlynam/calm-barking-dog
Jan 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:26 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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