Brendan Ryan
Engineer at Tempo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrendan Ryan is a seasoned engineer with eight years of experience building and scaling production systems across consumer and fintech platforms from San Francisco. He has driven backend and infrastructure work at high-growth companies like VSCO and Pinterest, helped transition GitHub to multi-tenant Kubernetes on bare metal, and led Link, Cryptocurrencies, Issuing, and Treasury efforts at Stripe as a Staff Engineer and Engineering Lead/TLM. Brendan blends full-stack fluency with deep systems engineering—policy-as-code, autoscaling, distributed APIs, and developer platform tooling are recurring themes in his work. He currently applies that expertise at Tempo after a brief stint at Bridge, focusing on reliable, scalable services. Notably, his career mixes product-facing feature work with platform-level enablement for millions of users, demonstrating both customer empathy and operational rigor. A University of Illinois CS graduate, he’s comfortable shipping end-to-end solutions that span infrastructure, security, and developer experience.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Github Skills (10)
npm6
electron6
react6
bootstrap3
ruby-on-rails2
sublime1
digitalocean1
backend1
tabular1
sublime-text1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
3rendan/ATHtest
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Contributions:87 pushes, 6 branches, 1 comment in 2 years 4 months
3rendan/MODS-Expanded
Jan 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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