Ryan Banks
Senior Software Engineer at SPS Commerce
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Banks is a Senior Software Engineer based in Minneapolis with nine years of experience building and maintaining large codebases in Rust, Python, Java, and JavaScript. He excels as a software generalist—moving between backend systems, distributed ledger technology, and testing automation—and has deep practical experience with Hyperledger Sawtooth, Splinter, Grid, and Sabre. At Bitwise IO he implemented Rust daemons, WebAssembly runtimes, SDKs for smart contracts, and P2P networking components, and he continues to drive production systems at SPS Commerce. Ryan combines pragmatic engineering with open-source stewardship—reviewing PRs, authoring RFCs, and improving blockchain transaction processors (including work on Sawtooth’s intkey and battleship families). He’s equally comfortable designing cloud deployment strategies with Kubernetes and writing low-level cryptographic-safe updates (e.g., MD5→SHA512), showing attention to both architecture and security detail. Colleagues describe him as a fast learner who turns new languages and concepts into production-ready solutions.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Minnesota Twin Cities
Github Skills (10)
distributed-ledger10
rust10
hyperledger10
python10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
blockchain10
hyperledger-sawtooth10
distributed-ledger-technology10
test-automation9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
hyperledger-archives/sawtooth-core
Aug 2017 - May 2018
Core repository for Sawtooth Distributed Ledger
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:57 commits, 37 PRs, 13 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan Banks primarily contributed to the core logic of the Sawtooth Distributed Ledger. His work involved modifying the intkey command for improved usability and porting transaction families, specifically the battleship transaction family, between different versions. Furthermore, he implemented tests for the battleship transaction processor and updated the code to replace MD5 hash with Sha512. His contributions also included updating the project's dependencies.
distributed-ledgersawtoothhyperledgersawtooth-lake
RyanLassigBanks/splinter
Oct 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:286 pushes, 78 branches in 7 months
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