Ryan Bolyard
Chief Technology Officer at GOVSTAR
Falls Church, Virginia, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Bolyard is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 11 years of IT experience and a strong track record migrating mission-critical government systems to the cloud. He has led four major FEMA cloud migrations—acting as Lead Architect on three—ranging from lift-and-shift to full replatforming and rapid cloud-native prototyping of systems like IPAWS. Ryan blends hands-on DevSecOps, automation and infrastructure skills (Ansible, Terraform, OpenShift, AWS GovCloud) with agile delivery to maintain high SLAs and security posture for production environments. He has progressed from web and database operations to senior technical leadership, uniquely balancing legacy modernization (Oracle, WebLogic, Windows stacks) with open-source cloud alternatives. Based in Falls Church, VA, he’s known for turning costly, monolithic systems into performant, cost-effective cloud solutions and for personally delivering the tooling and pipelines that make teams self-sustaining.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Major: Politics Minor: Computer Science, BS Major: Politics Minor: Computer Science at Hillsdale CollegeThe University of AkronHomeschooled
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Github Skills (69)
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Github contributions (5)
eGT-Labs/jmpr
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019
Python tooling to enable and manage AWS account navigation
Contributions:18 PRs, 94 pushes, 68 branches in 2 months
awspython
cloudamatic/mu_demo_platform
Apr 2018 - Nov 2019
Platform of Demo BOK's for Cloudamatic's Mu
Contributions:12 PRs, 113 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 7 months
bok
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