Ryan Breaker
Software Engineer III at Searchlight Simulations
South Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Breaker is a pragmatic Software Engineer III with 11 years of hands-on experience blending backend development and datacenter operations, currently advancing JVM services at Northwestern Mutual while maintaining a parallel role building secure licensing systems in C. Fluent in Python and Linux CLIs, he brings a rare mix of software and network expertise—holding a CCNA R&S and contributing backend improvements to the widely used NetBox project that support network automation. Comfortable across languages and systems, he gravitates toward network programmability and infrastructure-first solutions that reduce operational friction. Based in South Milwaukee, he pairs practical engineering with hobbies like travel and photography, often applying those observational skills to simplify complex systems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, UNIX System Administration, Certificate, UNIX System Administration at University of Wisconsin-ParksideWilliam Horlick High School
English, German, Japanese
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Github Skills (13)
testing10
network-automation10
python10
django10
infrastructure-management9
forms9
netbox8
cab8
cableready8
network7
ip7
arraylist6
java6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
netbox-community/netbox
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
The premier source of truth powering network automation. Open source under Apache 2. Try NetBox Cloud free: https://netboxlabs.com/free-netbox-cloud/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 8 PRs, 37 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to back-end development, focusing on the NetBox framework. Their work included adding meta tags to the base template, implementing and testing validation logic for rack configurations, and developing an interface expansion feature. The user also focused on improving the utility and robustness of the application by preventing data type mismatches and preventing the cases in ranges. Their contributions involved modifying the core models, forms, and test files of the project.
netmikopythontruthsotinfrastructure-management
GoldenXLence/Ghost-Pepper-Bot
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Ghost Pepper is a general purpose Discord bot. The way it is currently setup, it will run on your own system and will use your own system resources. If this gets enough stars, then I will host it my self to make it easier for you to use.
Contributions:102 commits in 1 month
discord-jshostdiscorddiscordjsbot
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