Ryan Fast
Distinguished Technical Program Manager at Expedia Group
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Fast is a Distinguished Technical Program Manager based in Chicago with 13 years of experience leading architecture, delivery and cross-functional engineering teams at Expedia Group. He combines hands-on software development chops—evident from contributions to a Java Consul HTTP client adding status, health checks and registration features—with a passion for Agile practices that drive repeatable, high-quality enterprise releases. Ryan has progressed through technical program leadership roles to shape platform-level solutions and governance while balancing pragmatic product thinking from earlier senior product and technology leadership positions. Known for analyzing outcomes, iterating quickly, and bringing order to complex distributed systems, he excels at translating technical trade-offs into executable roadmaps.
13 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at Western Washington University
Github Skills (8)
javas10
api-rest10
http10
consul10
rest-api10
api-design10
restful-api10
java10
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
rickfast/consul-client
Oct 2014 - Jul 2021
Java Client for Consul HTTP API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 257 commits, 207 PRs in 6 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ryan focused on enhancing the `consul-client` project, a Java client for the Consul HTTP API, by adding status endpoints and related functionality. These additions included the creation of a `StatusClient` class, along with the implementation of methods to retrieve the leader and peers. Furthermore, they implemented HTTP based health checks and integrated the API client with features like registration, deregistration, and maintenance mode control. This work involved significant modifications to multiple Java classes, adding essential features to the Consul client library.
apiconsuljavahttp-apijava-client
rickfast/telemetri
Jul 2017 - Sep 2018
Metrics collection and reporting for Javascript
Contributions:4 PRs, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
metricsjavascriptmetrics-collectionreporting
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