Summary
Ryan Daum is a systems software engineer and owner based in Hamilton, Ontario, with roughly 25 years of programming experience and a recent nine-year professional trajectory spanning startups to Google. He specializes in performance-critical systems written in Rust and C++, offering architecture, profiling, optimization, tooling, and hands-on delivery as a fractional tech lead or principal engineer. His background includes building low-latency services, virtualized systems, databases, and autonomous-vehicle software for agriculture, with production experience across Nest, Stadia on Chromecast, Google Fiber/Wifi, and ad-serving platforms. Ryan combines deep systems instincts with practical mentoring and hiring support, helping teams improve engineering practices while shipping reliable code. Known on GitHub as a “wizened porcupine-guy,” he brings a pragmatic, quietly curious approach to hard engineering problems and open-source collaboration.
9 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer