Ryan Vaznis
Senior Software Engineer at SmartRent
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Vaznis is a Senior Software Engineer in New York with 7 years of experience building full-stack web applications using React, JavaScript, and Ruby on Rails. He has led technical teams and shipped fast MVPs and performance improvements at startups and scale-ups, including moving legacy Rails apps to faster, more maintainable architectures. Ryan blends product-focused front-end craftsmanship—pixel-perfect implementations from Figma—with backend optimizations like ActiveRecord query refactors and scalable event pipelines handling millions of weekly events. He also brings a creative background in motion design and photography from major media brands, which informs his strong sense of UX and visual detail. Comfortable owning projects from prototype to production, he’s introduced E2E testing and automated workflows that reduced downtime and deployment errors. Outside work he maintains a public GitHub and approaches engineering with a continuous-learning mindset that bridges design and engineering.
7 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
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Github Skills (69)
api10
macbook-pro10
touchbar10
javascript9
rest9
info-card9
pickup9
cms9
dashboard9
widgets9
graphql9
mysql9
typescript9
dock9
nodejs9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
denvermullets/ninetynine-staples-mono
Sep 2024 - Apr 2026
Contributions:365 PRs, 366 pushes, 269 branches in 1 year 7 months
mentumm/mentumm-ts-api
Apr 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:3 releases, 1 review, 106 commits in 6 months
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