Ryan French
Senior Director, Software Engineering at Edgecast
Huntington Beach, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan French is a seasoned software engineering leader with over 15 years of experience, currently serving as Senior Director of Software Engineering at Edgecast in Huntington Beach, California. He blends hands-on technical excellence with strategic leadership, guiding teams of varying sizes and embracing a 'commit to master' mindset to ship reliable software. His career spans roles at Edgio, Yahoo, and Myspace, including CTO at ADDLANE and multiple director and manager positions that shaped large-scale web and CDN architectures. With deep expertise in CDN and edge infrastructure, he has consistently steered architecture and delivery for high-availability platforms. An Orange Coast College alum, he brings a practical, auditable approach to turning complex requirements into scalable solutions.
13 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Orange Coast College
Github Skills (31)
arraybuffer10
exif10
gif-animation10
image10
apng10
animated10
animated-gif10
gif10
decoding10
parsing10
giphy10
javascript-api10
javascript9
api9
feed6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rfrench/curler
May 2012 - Nov 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push in 5 years 6 months
http-requestslibcurlasynchronousc-nodehttp-client
rfrench/gify
Feb 2013 - Nov 2017
JavaScript API for decoding/parsing information from animated GIFs using ArrayBuffers.
Contributions:1 review, 20 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 9 months
apngapiimagedecodinganimated
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