Ryan Balfanz
Senior Software Engineer at reddit, reddit-archive; Previous: Netflix, Square, Mint.com/Intuit; ShiftMedical, Cuecal
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan B is a San Francisco-based senior software engineer with 16 years of experience building scalable backend systems and leading engineering teams. He led backend development for CueCal, the world's first social calendar, which Reddit acquired, and since 2022 has been helping Reddit advance security, privacy, corporate engineering, and enterprise applications. His career spans Square's compliance engineering, Netflix's real-time bidding infrastructure, and leadership of backend teams at MindSnacks, with early data-focused roles at Mint. An entrepreneur at heart, he co-founded Shift Medical as CTO and remains an angel investor, mentoring at Bloc and supporting early-stage teams. He holds an MS in Computational Condensed Matter Physics and Electrical Engineering and a BS in Physics and Mathematics, underscoring a strong quantitative foundation. He specializes in turning complex requirements into reliable, secure systems at scale, bridging research, product, and production in fast-moving environments.
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
M.S., Computational Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical Engineering, M.S., Computational Condensed Matter Physics, Electrical Engineering at Southern Illinois University, EdwardsvilleB.S., Physics, Mathematics, B.S., Physics, Mathematics at Illinois State University
English
Stackoverflow
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pyodbc
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Github Skills (200)
command-line-tool10
python-interface10
administration10
sms-messages10
django-blog10
sendgrid10
django10
django-project10
pyodbc10
cli10
macos10
send-sms10
binaries10
python-client10
reddit10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
RyanBalfanz/homebrew-cask
May 2015 - Dec 2018
A CLI workflow for the administration of Mac applications distributed as binaries
Contributions:12 PRs, 17 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 7 months
cliworkflowdistributed-applicationsadministrationbinaries
RyanBalfanz/django-example-project
Mar 2013 - Feb 2020
Example project layout for a new Django project (currently targets 1.5)
Contributions:25 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 years
pythondjangolayoutproject-layoutdjango-project
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