Ryan Hancock
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Hancock is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in storage and distributed systems, currently focused on ZippyDB and RocksDB work at Meta and now at Microsoft. He holds a PhD-level research background from the University of Waterloo where he built highly concurrent, consistent storage solutions and explored single-level store OSes, containerization, and serverless architectures. Ryan has hands-on experience shipping production infra—designing an automated DB tuning framework at Meta, modernizing CI/CD and Docker workflows at WestJet, and building efficiency-saving backend systems earlier in his career. Based in Bellevue, WA, he blends deep systems research with pragmatic engineering to optimize persistent key-value stores that power large-scale applications, and he often bridges academic insights with production performance wins.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of CalgaryDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, java, python, golang, javascript
Stackoverflow
148reputation
14kreached
8answers
8questions
Github Skills (39)
directory-tree9
storage9
embeddable9
persistent9
database9
rust9
compiler9
storage-engine8
standard-library8
key-value-store8
key-value-database8
rust-lang8
breadth-first-search8
key-value7
bigtable7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
krhancoc/progbg
Sep 2020 - Aug 2021
A programmable framework for running benchmarks and producing graphs.
Contributions:2 releases, 47 commits, 12 PRs in 10 months
benchmarkingbenchmarkbenchmarksgraphsprogrammable
krhancoc/frud
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 40 pushes, 4 branches in 1 month
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