Ryan Fairfax
Distinguished Engineer at General Motors
Kirkland, Washington, United States
Summary
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RockstarRyan Fairfax is a Distinguished Engineer with 25 years building systems from silicon and boot loaders to cloud-scale services, currently shaping digital products and infrastructure at General Motors. He excels at translating customer needs into scalable architectures and has repeatedly taken projects from first lines of code to production, including a telemetry pipeline that handled 10M+ events/sec and a 3x storage service performance uplift at Apple. His background spans embedded firmware, OS kernels, SDKs, and distributed cloud services, and he has led teams of up to ~70 engineers to deliver cross-stack solutions. Known as a hands-on technical leader, he blends deep implementation chops with mentorship and cross-team consulting to unblock complex problems. Based in Kirkland, WA, he has a track record of enabling new silicon and hardware platforms for Azure Sphere and dramatically scaling live services for Xbox and Apple. He seeks roles that push him to learn new technologies and solve high-impact engineering challenges.
10 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Github Skills (41)
timeseries-database10
reactive10
kafka10
time-series10
prometheus10
visual-studio10
csharp10
database10
dotnet9
scala9
vscode-extension9
roslyn9
code-analysis9
azure-sphere8
linker8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rfairfax/FiloDB
Jul 2024 - Dec 2024
Distributed Prometheus time series database
Contributions:2 PRs, 44 pushes, 35 branches in 4 months
rfairfax/roslyn
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 12 days
roslyncompilersdotnetcompilervisual-basic
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