Ryan Day
Staff IT Engineer at The Linux Foundation
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Day is a Staff IT Engineer based in Portland, Oregon with 11+ years of hands-on experience managing Linux-based infrastructure, systems programming, and automation at organizations including The Linux Foundation and NWEA. He brings deep operational expertise in cloud and on-prem provisioning, configuration management, reliability engineering, and incident response, with a history of reducing MTTR and improving system concurrency and stability. Comfortable from hardware lab environments to large-scale web services, he pairs pragmatic documentation and auditing practices with a developer’s mindset—having written and maintained Java applications, Puppet infrastructure, and deployment tooling. Known for helping people use computers (and aspiring to build robots), he blends steady, long-term stewardship with curiosity and a knack for tackling messy legacy systems.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, BA, Computer Science at Principia College
Github Skills (33)
kubernetes7
semantics7
kustomize7
jenkins6
governance6
ansible-role6
firmware6
libpurple5
metadata-management5
yaml5
selinux5
linux5
data-governance4
pidgin4
platform-specific4
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
julipfin/rvrn
Jul 2022 - Nov 2025
Contributions:11 PRs, 21 pushes, 11 branches in 3 years 5 months
rynofinn/apps
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
Operate-first application manifests
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
manifestsoperate
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