Ryan Carroll
Software Engineer at Graylog, Inc.
Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Carroll is a full-stack software engineer based in the Austin area with 5+ years of commercial development and 3+ years of cyber warfare experience in the Virginia Air National Guard. He blends backend Java expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the widely used Graylog log management server—with embedded C/C++ and frontend work from prior roles, enabling end-to-end system delivery. At Graylog he improved pipeline processing and resilient pipeline rule handling, reflecting a focus on data ingestion, search, and observability. His military work built and taught mission-focused tooling in Python, PowerShell and bash, and applied security-driven analytics across COTS SIEM and EDR platforms. Previously he helped modernize Navy submarine payload control systems and built high-reliability e-billing APIs, showing comfort with regulated and revenue-critical systems. Known for translating operational requirements into maintainable code, he brings a pragmatic mix of security mindset, systems thinking, and hands-on implementation.
4 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin
English, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
javas10
mongodb10
java10
mongodb-database10
object-oriented-programming9
rest-api9
guice5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Graylog2/graylog2-server
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Free and open log management
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:226 reviews, 27 commits, 90 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the back-end development of the Graylog2-server repository, specifically focusing on refactoring and implementing changes related to pipeline processing. They made modifications to several Java files involving MongoDB services and interfaces, suggesting work with data storage and retrieval. Furthermore, they introduced exception handling in the REST resources for pipelines and rules, as well as updating the search for pipeline rules by ID to treat the ID as an ObjectId. These commits demonstrate expertise in enhancing the core functionality of the log management server.
log-viewerloggingloggersecure-loggingsyslog
Graylog2/graylog-plugin-integrations
May 2022 - Jun 2023
A collection of open source Graylog integrations that will be released together.
Contributions:32 reviews, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 1 year 1 month
releasedintegrationsgraylog
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