Ryan Morlok
Software Engineer at Dropbox
Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Morlok is a software engineer with 12+ years of experience building scalable systems across embedded, backend, and web layers. He is currently a Software Engineer at Dropbox on the Dash team, solving universal search and blending hands-on coding with product-focused leadership. Earlier in his career he co-founded Docalytics and served as CTO, then led engineering at Contently after its acquisition and guided migrations to Kubernetes, demonstrating strong startup-to-enterprise execution. He has held leadership roles including CTO at ZAPinfo and Senior Manager at Indeed, where he shaped product-to-enterprise integrations and DevOps practices. His Open Source contributions include enhancements to pdf2htmlEX as a backend developer, adding per-page HTML rendering, filename customization and tests. He holds an MS in Computer Science from UIUC and a BS in CS/Business from the University of Minnesota, and is based in Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, Business, BS, Computer Science, Business at University of MinnesotaMS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (18)
c-language10
rendering10
html-renderer10
render10
file-handling10
pdf-conversion10
c-programming-language10
testing9
py9
python-29
sorting6
hibernate6
sessionfactory6
xsd6
google-app-engine6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
coolwanglu/pdf2htmlEX
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
Convert PDF to HTML without losing text or format.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Ryan implemented features for splitting PDF pages into individual HTML files, including the ability to specify the output filename format. They modified the core PDF to HTML conversion logic within `src/pdf2htmlEX.cc` and `src/HTMLRenderer/general.cc`. Further improvements included additions to the CSS generation and font handling, enhancing the overall rendering of the HTML output. They also added unit tests for the new filename features.
pdfconvert-pdftypesettinghtml-to-pdfcjk
rmorlok/activejsonmodel
Feb 2022 - Jan 2024
Active model objects that can be serialized to JSON
Contributions:1 release, 4 reviews, 30 PRs in 1 year 11 months
to-jsonrailsserializationrubyactivemodel
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