Ryan Draga
Senior Cloud Operations Specialist
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolRyan Draga is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with 11 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, secure platforms across startups and enterprises from Toronto. He blends deep Linux and DevSecOps expertise with practical backend development in Python and Go, specializing in IaC (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet), Kubernetes, and web application security including pentesting and reverse engineering. Ryan has led migrations off Jenkins to GitHub Actions, modernized Terraform codebases, and architected secure AWS/Azure hybrid environments while guiding SOC2 readiness for clients. A natural technical lead and mentor, he intentionally cultivates empathetic, curious teams and runs security awareness initiatives like org-wide CTFs. He brings a practical security-first mindset to platform engineering — quietly enjoying retro gaming and the odd low-level reverse-engineering puzzle in his spare time.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Graphic Design Production, Certificate, Graphic Design Production at George Brown Polytechnic
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Github Skills (162)
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
BoxingOctopus/homebrew-taptastic
Jan 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:14 pushes, 3 branches in 5 years 1 month
BoxingOctopusCreative/giteo
Apr 2021 - Nov 2022
Giteo: Git.io URL Shortener CLI Client
Contributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 5 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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