Ryan Cruz
Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Customer Federated Identity
Dallas, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Cruz is a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer specializing in customer federated identity, authentication, and authorization with eight years of experience anchored in the airlines and aviation sector. Based in Dallas, he has progressed through technical operations to senior engineering roles at Southwest Airlines, building and operationalizing federation solutions for both enterprise and customer-facing systems. His background in Computer Systems Engineering from the University of Georgia and early roles at Apple and Equifax give him a practical blend of end-user support, automation, and large-scale asset management experience. Known for translating operational needs into secure, auditable identity flows, he often bridges gaps between SRE-style reliability work and identity product engineering. As someone who started in Tier‑1 support and moved into identity engineering, he brings a user-centric perspective to complex security integrations.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Engineering Career Pathway, Engineering Career Pathway at Milton High SchoolBachelor’s Degree, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Technology/Computer Systems Technology at University of Georgia College of Engineering
English, Spanish
Github Skills (43)
webview8
css7
gtk7
cgo7
cpp6
gui-toolkit6
wxwidgets6
actionscript6
properties-file6
crossword6
javascript6
html5
arduino-library5
webui5
webkit5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
cruzryan/herokuToRepl
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:16 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
cruzryan/EasySerial
Nov 2017 - Apr 2020
An opensource library to make Arduino Serials easier to use!
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
crosswordserialsarduino-libraryocsarduino
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