Summary
Ryan Barry is a founding payments engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native infrastructure and realtime analytics platforms, currently based in San Francisco. He has progressed from hands-on operations and devops roles to staff engineering and leadership at Carbon and core infrastructure work at Snap/Metamarkets, showing a consistent focus on reliability, automation, and scalable data systems. At Pool he now applies that background to payments, combining low-latency analytics experience with secure, auditable deployment practices. His track record includes architecting zero-downtime deployments, centralized logging/metrics stacks, and integrating complex partner APIs—skills that make him comfortable owning both systems and product-facing integrations. Not obvious from titles alone: he blends startup CTO experience with deep ops engineering DNA, enabling rapid iteration without sacrificing operational rigor.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at UC Santa Barbara