Ryan Egesdahl
Senior AWS Architect at Fulcrum Technology Solutions
Lynnwood, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Egesdahl is a Senior AWS Architect and platform-focused engineer with nearly two decades of experience designing, building, and operating reliable, cost-efficient systems across cloud and bare-metal environments. He has driven measurable impact—cutting costs by 80% for a broadcaster, improving customer retention at HostGator, and accelerating backups and build pipelines at AWS, MongoDB, and GitLab—while owning CI/CD, IaC, and distribution/build infrastructure. Comfortable coding in Python, Ruby, Bash and more, he pairs hands-on DevOps with systems-level architecture and a penchant for simplifying complex designs. An active open-source contributor, he’s improved build and scheduler components in notable projects like icecream and MongoDB, demonstrating deep familiarity with distributed compilation and dependency management. Based in Lynnwood, WA, he’s intellectually curious—self-hosting services, studying broadly from sciences to philosophy—and prefers environments where learning (and productive failure) is encouraged.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology, Bachelor’s Degree Information Technology at Western Governors UniversityCypress Creek High School
English
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Github Skills (28)
dependency-management10
c-language10
distributed-systems10
build-system10
mongodb-database10
cprogramming-language10
mongodb10
testing9
nosql9
databases9
communication-protocol9
database9
protocols9
shell8
sh8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo
May 2020 - Jan 2023
The MongoDB Database
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 235 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to dependency management and build process improvements within the MongoDB repository. This included updating third-party dependencies like zstd, SafeInt, and timelib, ensuring the project utilizes the latest versions. Furthermore, the user addressed issues related to compiler flags and environment variables, enhancing the build system's robustness. The user also contributed to fixes in the test suite and packaging processes.
nosqlc-plus-plusmongodb-databasedatabasemongodb
icecc/icecream
Feb 2022 - Nov 2022
Distributed compiler with a central scheduler to share build load
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 14 commits, 14 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the icecream project by fixing bugs and refactoring the scheduler component, which is central to the distributed compilation process. They addressed missing semicolons and refactored the `pick_server` function, adding new scheduler algorithms. The user also made modifications to test scripts, enhancing the testing process and ensuring the reliability of the build system. Further contributions included refactoring of the `Msg` class to improve the communication infrastructure.
compilerschedulersharedistributed
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