Summary
Jake Ryan is a Senior Software Engineer with seven years of experience building resilient, cloud-native systems at Capital One, where he drives AWS Lambda APIs, EMR orchestration, and regional failover exercises. He has a strong track record of stabilizing production services—recently eliminating recurring monthly incidents by fixing XML unmarshalling and threading issues in Go microservices. Comfortable across backend and frontend stacks, Jake has modernized legacy Java services into Lambda-based APIs, written performance and functional test suites, and built React/Ag-grid interfaces for a college-admissions startup. AWS-certified and fluent in Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, Java, and SQL, he pairs practical automation (CI/CD, S3/IAM pipelines) with thoughtful documentation and operational readiness. He also brings research experience in NLP and data structures, having implemented trie-based algorithms for medical term matching, which reflects his aptitude for applying algorithmic thinking to real-world engineering problems.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor's degree, Computer and Information Sciences, General at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill