Ryan Delaney
Founder at Ryan Delaney
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Delaney is a founder and former Fortune 500 sales leader turned writer and wellness advocate with 14 years of experience blending revenue-driven marketing, product copy, and people leadership. He builds practical content and growth strategies—helping startups and enterprises from Meta and Asana to boutique clients—while running a popular newsletter aimed at encouraging self-acceptance over relentless self-improvement. Ryan pairs sales and operations rigor (including leading thousand-person census operations and scaling payment businesses to $1M+ ARR) with hands-on content craft: SEO-driven long-form writing, conversion copy, and conversational AI. An occasional open-source tester, he’s improved test coverage for popular Bash tooling, underscoring a pragmatic attention to detail across both code and copy. Based in the Bay Area with an MBA and background in creative writing and French, he helps professionals become wiser, kinder, and calmer while still delivering measurable business outcomes.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA) Marketing, Master of Business Administration (MBA) Marketing at Colorado State UniversityCertificate Social Media Marketing & Analytics, Certificate Social Media Marketing & Analytics at UCSC Silicon Valley ExtensionCreative Writing, Creative Writing at Mission CollegeEdina Senior High SchoolBachelor of Arts (BA) French, Bachelor of Arts (BA) French at Saint John's University
Github Skills (9)
sh10
script10
bash10
shell10
scripting10
test-automation10
unit-testing9
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
twolfson/sexy-bash-prompt
Nov 2013 - Apr 2015
Bash prompt with colors, git statuses, and git branches.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 67 comments in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan's contributions primarily focused on improving the testing framework and test coverage of the `sexy-bash-prompt` project. They implemented changes to the test suite, including adjusting tests to account for root user behavior and various environment configurations. Furthermore, they integrated tests to handle PROMPT_SYMBOL overrides and updated the testing methodology for consistency and error message clarity.
bash
rpdelaney/downforeveryone
Oct 2019 - Mar 2023
checks if a site is down for everyone or just you, via isup.me
Contributions:1 release, 46 reviews, 133 commits in 3 years 5 months
checksisup
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