Ricky Kwan
Senior Operations Engineer
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRicky Kwan is a Senior Operations Engineer based in Old Toronto with 13 years of experience building and operating resilient infrastructure for online media. At Index Exchange he progressed from Operations Engineer to Senior Operations Engineer, driving automation and reliability using Python, Docker, Ansible, Bash, and databases. He brings a pragmatic systems mindset honed across co-op roles in healthcare and government, where early exposure to web modernization and application programming informed his production-first approach. Ricky focuses on reproducible deployments and operational efficiency, often translating complex operational needs into simple automation. Colleagues value his steady hands-on leadership and ability to bridge developer and ops concerns in high-throughput ad tech environments.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at University of Toronto Scarborough
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Github Skills (117)
python10
high-availability10
testing10
ubuntu10
gtk10
kubespray10
ansible-galaxy10
ansible-role10
ssh10
podman10
resource-server10
bare-metal10
qt10
kubernetes-cluster10
ansible-lint10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Rickkwa/wanikani-highlighter
Mar 2016 - Jul 2018
Chrome extension that highlights japanese kanji/vocabulary on the page based on the user's WaniKani.
Contributions:1 release, 47 commits, 29 pushes in 2 years 3 months
chrome-extension
Rickkwa/dotfiles
Jun 2017 - Feb 2026
Dotfiles and other settings.
Contributions:7 PRs, 79 pushes, 8 branches in 8 years 9 months
vimneovimdotfilessettingszsh
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