Summary
Marc Ryan is a platform engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building and maintaining web applications and infrastructure from Wichita, Kansas. He has deep PHP and MySQL expertise and a track record of integrating heterogeneous systems—gluing PHP, JavaScript, Perl, Node.js, ElasticSearch, Mailgun and replication tooling into reliable production services. At Purple Wave Auction he progressed from Tier 1 full‑stack work to platform engineering, leading projects like an ElasticSearch search service, SPA frontend rebuild, and database backup/restore with Tungsten Replication. Previously he built e-commerce systems, payment integrations, and Solr-based search at Norris, often pairing feature work with operational automation. Comfortable across the stack, Marc focuses on pragmatic, production-ready solutions for scaling and data distribution, and has a practical knack for stitching legacy systems into modern workflows.
9 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Wichita State University
Northwest Highschool
English, Japanese