Ryan Goulding
Technical Leader at LayerZero Labs
Rye, New Hampshire, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Goulding is a technical leader with 11 years of experience designing and delivering large-scale networking, cloud-native, and systems software across startups and enterprise teams. Currently leading engineering at LayerZero Labs, he previously drove Kubernetes, OpenShift, and telco-grade solutions as a Principal Software Engineer in Red Hat’s Office of the CTO. His background spans SDN/NFV, OpenDaylight controller development, and Amazon-scale robotics services—combining deep protocol-level expertise with production architecture and performance tuning. An active open-source contributor, he improved RESTCONF and data-change listener performance in the prominent OpenDaylight controller project, reflecting a focus on robust APIs and scalable data paths. Based in Rye, New Hampshire, he blends hands-on coding and systems thinking with leadership that turns technical vision into acquired products and deployed platforms. Collected across industry and research roles, his work reveals an appetite for complex networking problems and measurable performance improvements.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of New Hampshire
Github Skills (14)
opendaylight10
javas10
api-rest10
rest-api10
restful-api10
java10
api-design10
performance-testing9
data-structure9
datastructures-algorithms9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
clustering8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
opendaylight/controller
Mar 2015 - Apr 2018
Mirror of the OpenDaylight controller gerrit project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on backend development tasks within the OpenDaylight controller project. Their contributions include fixing Restconf POST operations, deprecating older data change listener abstractions in favor of newer ones, and modifying data types in the car model for performance testing. Additionally, the user implemented RPC calls to enable and disable DataChangeListener and DataTreeChangeListener functionalities for performance testing purposes. These changes appear focused on improving the REST API and underlying data management capabilities.
controlleropendaylightgerrit
redhat-nfvpe/helm-ansible-template-exporter
Apr 2020 - Apr 2021
This is a tool to convert Helm charts into Ansible Role
Contributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 18 commits in 1 year
chartshelmansiblehelm-chartskubernetes
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