John Ryan
Services Director at Jakobyte
Cork, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Ryan is a services-minded technology leader and founder with nearly two decades of hands-on experience spanning datacenter core to edge and a decade in senior pre-sales and digital solution engineering roles. As Services Director at Jakobyte and formerly a Director at VMware, he designs scalable presales services, talent frameworks and service catalogs that align people development with high-velocity SaaS and subscription go-to-market models. He has a track record of building and scaling graduate programs and multidisciplinary teams across EMEA, hiring top talent and turning classroom learning into customer-facing engineering capability. Technically grounded (MSc in Cloud Computing) and an active contributor to open-source tooling—he improved core functionality in the widely used YAML templating project ytt—he blends product-level engineering judgment with strategic, people-centered leadership. Known for refining communication and interpersonal skills, he routinely bridges academic teaching, carrier-grade engineering and commercial delivery for SMEs, enterprises and telcos. Based in Cork, Ireland, he focuses on sustainable, responsible adoption of emerging technologies while developing the next generation of pre-sales talent.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Cloud Computing, First Class Honours, MSc, Cloud Computing, First Class Honours at Cork Institute of Technology
Github Skills (14)
configuration-management10
configurations10
go10
templating10
configuration-file10
cli10
yaml10
data-structure9
refactoring9
error-handling9
data-structures9
api8
documentation8
apidoc8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
carvel-dev/ytt
May 2020 - Dec 2022
YAML templating tool that works on YAML structure instead of text
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 298 reviews, 120 commits in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:John primarily contributed to the YAML templating tool, specifically enhancing its core functionality. Their work involved refining the processing of YAML files, including skipping specific files marked as templates and reporting encoding attempts as errors. The user also refactored parts of the code, introduced feature flags for experimentation, and improved the documentation and integration APIs. Additionally, they addressed a regression issue related to the `--data-value-file` flag.
carvelyamltemplating-toolconfigurationyaml-processor
jtigger/memorex
May 2016 - Nov 2021
Extension of my memory.
Contributions:10 PRs, 2 pushes in 5 years 7 months
memorynim-langnim-language
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