Ryan Bales
Senior Software Engineer at Ambition
Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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SeniorRyan Bales is a senior software engineer and seasoned technical leader with 14 years of experience building full-stack systems, from database tuning and ETL to web APIs and rich frontends. He has scaled integrations and SSO solutions, designed performant geospatial search that reduced complexity from O(n) to O(1), and led engineering teams through product redesigns and M&A technical due diligence. At Ambition he progressed from integrations engineer to director-level roles and now contributes as a senior engineer, blending hands-on implementation with people and process leadership. Based in Chattanooga, TN, he thrives at the intersection of infrastructure, data modeling, and user-facing systems—and often prefers solving thorny backend performance problems that quietly unlock better product experiences.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (119)
alien10
rest-framework10
entity-relationship10
relationship10
django-admin10
zoneinfo10
send-email10
django-models10
redis-cache10
pytz10
django9
django-rest9
entity9
service-account9
lxml9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ambitioninc/django-newrelic-plugin-agent
Apr 2016 - Jun 2023
Contributions:12 PRs, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 3 months
thinkt4nk/django-data-schema
Nov 2015 - Mar 2021
Data Schemas for Django Models and Dictionaries
Contributions:17 pushes, 8 branches, 1 tag in 5 years 5 months
pythondjangodjango-modelsschemasdictionaries
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