Summary
Ryan Clarke is a Staff Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable cloud-native systems across AWS and Azure. He has led cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact services—from a 10DLC-compliant messaging platform to a streaming telemetry system that cut database load by over 80%—and architected migrations that replaced legacy systems with resilient, zero-downtime pipelines. Comfortable across the stack, he has shipped microservices, event-driven change-data-capture, IoT management platforms, and high-throughput asynchronous processors that increased claims throughput by 400%. A committed mentor and communicator, Ryan has hosted monthly Lunch & Learns since 2014 to strengthen engineering collaboration and skills. Based in Indianapolis, he pairs hands-on engineering with operational rigor, often finding pragmatic performance wins in mature systems. Beyond code, his background in music and early work in curriculum and fundraising reveal a versatile problem-solver who brings empathy and structured thinking to technical leadership.
13 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BA Music, BA Music at Thomas Edison State University