Ryan Carlson
Principal Engineer at SpotHero
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Carlson is a Principal Engineer based in the Greater Chicago Area with two decades of software and architecture experience and a track record of scaling data-intensive systems. He currently leads platform and architecture efforts at SpotHero after progressing through senior and staff engineering roles there, and previously built large-scale analytics and data pipelines for automotive and telecom firms. Ryan combines hands-on engineering with product-minded leadership—designing systems that processed hundreds of billions of events per month and optimizing databases for high-read workloads. He also runs(ed) a local service business, showing an operational, customer-facing side that complements his technical skillset. With an MS in Management Information Systems and a BA in Economics, he blends technical depth, cost-conscious decision making, and cross-functional collaboration. Colleagues know him for practical architecture that balances scalability, maintainability, and real-world operational constraints.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Management Information Systems and Services, Master of Science (M.S.) Management Information Systems and Services at Northern Illinois UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Economics at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Spanish
Github Skills (38)
amazon-emr8
distributions7
hive-metastore7
aws-glue6
amazon6
reference-implementation6
aws-redshift6
catalog6
metastore6
apache-hive5
confluent-cloud5
aws5
metadata5
emr5
avro5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ryan-carlson/AdventOfCode2022
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:24 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
spothero/terraform-provider-redshift
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
Provider for AWS Redshift entities, eg Users, Groups, Permissions, Schemas, Databases
Contributions:4 releases, 6 PRs, 4 pushes in 10 days
groupsproviderredshiftaws-redshiftdatabases
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