Ryan Dean
Rochester, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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RockstarRyan Dean is a seasoned infrastructure and network-focused software engineer with 22 years of experience building and operating operational support systems for large-scale networks and CDN platforms. He has driven reliability and operational tooling at Datadog and Netflix and led OSS efforts around alarm mediation, SNMP/TL1 device management, and security administration at Zayo and AboveNet. Comfortable in Unix/FreeBSD environments, he has deep hands-on expertise with Tivoli Netcool, net-snmp, LDAP, and intrusion detection/firewall management, translating network telemetry into actionable operational workflows. Ryan also contributes to open-source tooling—improving reliability and exception handling in popular async HTTP tooling—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on robust, testable systems. Based in Rochester, Minnesota, he pairs operator instincts with software engineering rigor to reduce incidents and automate complex telecom operational processes. Colleagues know him for turning messy, device-level alarm data into dependable, production-ready observability and remediation.
22 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (5)
asynchronous10
python10
async10
testing10
http-request9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
spyoungtech/grequests
Jun 2014 - Jul 2014
Requests + Gevent = <3
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer / QA Engineer
Back-end Developer / QA EngineerContributions:13 commits, 6 comments in 27 days
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on improving the `grequests` library's exception handling and testing capabilities. They addressed bugs related to how exceptions were handled within asynchronous request processing, specifically around the `map` and `imap` functions. Furthermore, the user added and enhanced tests to ensure correct behavior, particularly when exceptions occur and when exception handlers are used, contributing to improved reliability and functionality. They also contributed to version bumping.
gevent
rtdean/sensorpush-to-datadog
May 2022 - Dec 2024
Send Sensorpush data to Datadog using a lambda cron
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
monitoringcrondatadoglambda
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