Ryan Br...
Staff Software Engineer at Sentry
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Br... is a Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and scaling data-intensive distributed systems. He has driven high-volume, low-latency streaming pipelines at New Relic and now focuses on dynamic Kubernetes infrastructure and data streaming at Airbyte, the leading open-source data integration platform. His contributions to Airbyte include memory optimizations, async BigQuery refactors, and practical fixes like UUID-based deduplication for S3 uploads—small changes that improve reliability at scale. Comfortable across JVM and cloud-native stacks (Kotlin, Java, Micronaut, Kafka, Postgres, Kubernetes) as well as front-end tooling, he bridges infrastructure and application concerns to ship end-to-end solutions. A former barista-turned-engineer, he brings operational rigor and customer-focused pragmatism to platform reliability and observability.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Language, Japanese Language at KCP Nihongo Senmon GakkouBachelor’s Degree, Japanese Language and Literature, Bachelor’s Degree, Japanese Language and Literature at Portland State University
English, Japanese
Github Skills (13)
etl10
javas10
bigquery10
data-integration10
java10
pipeline10
s3-bucket9
data-engineering9
amazon-s39
aws-s39
self-hosting7
python5
postgresql4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
airbytehq/airbyte
Apr 2023 - May 2026
Open-source data movement for ELT pipelines and AI agents — from APIs, databases & files to warehouses, lakes, and AI applications. Both self-hosted and Cloud.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:555 reviews, 239 PRs, 608 pushes in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Airbyte platform by fixing bugs, bumping versions, and enhancing the functionality of existing components. They fixed duplicate object names in S3 uploads by incorporating UUIDs. The user also added enhancements and refactored BigQuery integrations to utilize an async framework. Moreover, they optimized memory usage within the codebase.
aiai-agentdatabasedatabaseselt
mi-squared/volunteer-portal
Nov 2015 - Jan 2016
A portal for gathering volunteer applications for health care related events.
Contributions:205 commits, 75 PRs, 99 pushes in 1 month
reacteventsdjangogatheringportal
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