Ryan Gurney
Software Engineer IC5 at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Gurney is a Software Engineer IC5 at Meta in New York with nine years of experience building reliable, performant, and maintainable web services and developer tooling. He spans the full stack and cloud-native surface — from React front-ends and Ruby on Rails backends to Go services, Kubernetes, Docker, CI/CD, and AWS — with a strong emphasis on operability and developer productivity. Ryan contributed to Zendesk’s open-source deployment tool Samson, improving Docker image workflows, unifying secrets management, and adding deployment metrics to make rollouts more observable. His senior roles at LinkedIn and Zendesk and product-driven work at AppFolio delivered measurable revenue and reliability gains. A UCSD CS graduate with a business minor, he brings technical depth paired with a pragmatic, product-aware mindset.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
dockerce10
docker10
secret-management10
secret-manager10
continuous-delivery10
secretmanager10
dockers10
secrets-manager10
secretsmanager10
kubernetes-pod10
ci-cd9
error-reporting8
shell6
callback6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/samson
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Web interface for deployments, with plugin architecture and kubernetes support
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:269 commits, 223 PRs, 375 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration aspects of the project. They made changes related to Docker image management, including enabling features for keeping built images and addressing build errors. They also worked on the secrets management system, unifying secrets logic and preventing duplicate values. Additionally, the user worked on improvements to the build process, including the implementation of new metrics for deployment successes and failures.
continuous-deploymentplugin-architectureweb-interfacedeploymentdocker
ragurney/spotless-intellij-gradle
Dec 2021 - Jan 2023
An IntelliJ plugin to allow running the Spotless gradle task from within the IDE.
Contributions:14 reviews, 42 commits, 39 PRs in 1 year 1 month
spotlessgradlespotless-gradleplugingradle-task
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