Summary
Ryan Dawkins is a software engineer with 10 years of experience delivering secure, scalable distributed systems across cloud and fintech platforms. At AWS he led resource management services and eventing APIs, designing encryption features and multi-region deployments, while mentoring junior engineers and guiding threat models and pen-testing recommendations. His recent roles span Stripe and Block, where he built risk and data pipelines, feature generation with Spark, and tooling for anomaly detection, demonstrating strong cross-stack impact from backend services to data platforms. He combines a metrics-driven mindset with a focus on performance and security, applying it to native Android, web front-ends, and back-end systems. Based in Tempe, Arizona, he holds a computer science degree from Oklahoma State University and has a track record of partnering with product teams to run monetization experiments and improve operational efficiency. Notably, his career includes leadership and hands-on engineering across startups and large enterprises, proving adaptability and a penchant for turning complex requirements into robust production systems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Software Engineering at Oklahoma State University
English