Ryan Folsom
Principal Software Engineer at GitHub
Detroit, Michigan, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Folsom is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing reliable, scalable systems and currently leading engineering efforts at GitHub after advancing from Staff to Principal roles. He has deep SRE and platform expertise honed through multi-year tenures at Apple and earlier systems engineering at Quicken Loans, blending operational rigor with pragmatic software design. Based in Detroit, he focuses on simple, elegant solutions that survive rapid change and scale across large teams and distributed systems. Ryan also gives back as a volunteer teacher with TEALSK12, showing a commitment to mentorship and technical education beyond his day job. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on leader who pairs clear architectural thinking with a preference for minimal, maintainable implementations.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts General Studies, Bachelor of Arts General Studies at Baker College of Clinton Township
Github Skills (20)
puppet9
github-enterprise8
fabric8
github7
duo-security6
ganglia6
cidr5
ip5
python5
dns4
ipv44
web-frontend4
ipv63
auth3
subnet3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ryanfolsom/vscode-quick-implements
Nov 2024 - Dec 2025
Quickly view and navigate to implementations.
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 15 PRs in 1 year 1 month
RyanFolsom/elastalert
Sep 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:2 pushes in 26 days
alertingflexiblekibanaelasticsearch
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