Ryan Gurney
Software Engineer IC5 at Meta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Gurney is a Software Engineer IC5 based in New York with a decade of experience building reliable, maintainable web services and deployment tooling across companies from AppFolio to Meta. He combines full-stack Rails and React expertise with strong DevOps chops—owning internal CI/CD systems, Kubernetes deployments, and contributions to the popular open-source deployment tool Samson. At LinkedIn and Zendesk he shipped user-facing features and orchestrated user-defined workflows, while at AppFolio he drove revenue-impacting features and containerized migrations to improve scalability. Known for pragmatic engineering and cross-team collaboration, he also has a track record of improving developer productivity and embedding metrics into build/deploy pipelines to reduce failures.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
English, French
Stackoverflow
434reputation
19kreached
16answers
19questions
Github Skills (20)
kubernetes10
docker10
secret-management10
continuous-delivery10
dockers10
secrets-manager10
kubernetes-pods10
cicd9
error-reporting8
shell6
callback6
command-line6
windows6
multithreading6
subprocess6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
zendesk/samson
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Web interface for deployments, with plugin architecture and kubernetes support
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & DevOps Engineer
Backend Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:269 commits, 223 PRs, 375 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the deployment and configuration aspects of the project. They made changes related to Docker image management, including enabling features for keeping built images and addressing build errors. They also worked on the secrets management system, unifying secrets logic and preventing duplicate values. Additionally, the user worked on improvements to the build process, including the implementation of new metrics for deployment successes and failures.
kubernetesplugin-architecturecdcontinuous-delivery
zendesk/term-check
Nov 2018 - Oct 2020
A GitHub app which runs checks for flagged terminology in GitHub repos
Contributions:4 reviews, 61 commits, 36 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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