Ryan Barkley is a Staff Software Engineer with over 10 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading teams, currently driving engineering at CircleCI. He combines a strong focus on frontend UX and software architecture with practical DevOps practices—containerization, deployment automation, automated testing, and application security—to improve delivery and developer experience. Ryan has moved between individual contributor and management roles, mentoring engineers and translating complex technical trade-offs for stakeholders while shaping agile processes and acceptance criteria. Based in Kentucky, he pairs entrepreneurial roots from running a web studio with enterprise-grade delivery at MetroNet and CircleCI, and is known for prioritizing code quality and secure, maintainable systems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at Kentucky Wesleyan College
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Ryan Barkley - Staff Software Engineer at CircleCI