Justin Ryan
Principal Software Engineer at Roblox
San Carlos, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Ryan is a Principal Software Engineer and engineering leader with 15 years of experience building resilient, large-scale distributed systems and identity platforms at companies like Netflix and Roblox. He excels at turning ambiguous, high-impact problems into practical, production-ready solutions while simultaneously mentoring teams and improving operational rigor. Notable successes include unifying user and device identity at Netflix, modernizing backend build systems, and creating a reusable Access Management Platform at Roblox that scaled authorization, compliance gating, and policy-driven feature access. He prefers joining fast-growing organizations of 100–2,000 employees in consumer-focused industries where technical leadership and people development matter equally. Peers describe him as a driver of change who combines deep systems expertise with a knack for rallying cross-functional stakeholders and shipping durable outcomes. Based in San Carlos, CA, he brings a product-minded engineering approach and a history of incubating initiatives into company-wide platforms.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic InstituteBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Github Skills (84)
gradle-plugin10
dynamic-routing10
gradle10
plugin10
monitoring9
linux9
security9
java9
fault-tolerance8
asynchronous8
groovy8
json8
kotlin-language7
dockerfile7
maven7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
quidryan/nametag
Jun 2022 - Feb 2026
Printing nametags
Contributions:4 PRs, 7 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 7 months
frenchprintingazerothcoredfinity
Netflix-Skunkworks/zerotocloud
Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
Scripts and instructions for Zero To Cloud With NetflixOSS
Contributions:14 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 6 months
pythonzeroinstructionsnetflixosslinux
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