Ryan Allen
Senior Software Engineer at Chronosphere
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Allen is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building high-performance backend systems and distributed metrics platforms. At Chronosphere he focuses on scalable observability and storage solutions, bringing prior progression from software engineer to principal engineer at Applied Predictive Technologies. He contributes to notable open-source work in the m3db monorepo, improving trace coverage and optimizing time encoding/decoding to boost performance and observability in a production TSDB. Comfortable operating across database internals, encoding layers, and read-path optimizations, he blends pragmatic engineering with measurable performance gains. Trained in computer engineering at the University of Virginia, he combines systems-level rigor with a track record of shipping resilient, production-grade infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Computer Engineering at University of Virginia
Github Skills (12)
databases10
tsd10
go10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
tracer9
trace9
performance-optimization9
metric8
aggregator7
query-engine7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
m3db/m3
Feb 2020 - Jan 2022
M3 monorepo - Distributed TSDB, Aggregator and Query Engine, Prometheus Sidecar, Graphite Compatible, Metrics Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 302 reviews, 354 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan's primary contributions focused on enhancing the M3 database's functionality, particularly around tracing and performance optimizations. Their commits added trace coverage to the `FetchTagged` code path within the `dbnode` service, improving observability. They also optimized time encoding and decoding operations within the encoding package, enhancing overall performance. Further work included improvements to read bits functionalities and ensuring index flush doc caching.
distributedquerymonorepoquery-enginesidecar
rallen090/CoinJob
Jun 2017 - Jul 2017
Contributions:45 commits, 39 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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