Ryan Hayes
Senior Software Engineer, AWS Solutions, Retail CPG at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Hayes is a Senior Software Engineer at AWS Solutions specializing in Retail/CPG who combines seven years of hands-on cloud engineering with a knack for turning repetitive operational pain points into reusable, production-ready patterns. He has led teams and owned roadmaps for business-critical managed applications that serve hundreds of users and tens of thousands of monthly requests, while establishing CI/CD pipelines and engineering standards across orgs. Ryan co-developed the popular AWS Solutions Constructs—an open-source CDK extension—and contributed backend integrations for a restaurant management demo that tied Lambda, DynamoDB, Step Functions, S3, SNS, and API Gateway into a cohesive pattern. His background includes IoT and connected-device frameworks for automotive and defense, plus early-career work building analytics and resume-matching tools, reflecting a cross-domain ability to ship scalable systems. Based in Washington, D.C., he pairs pragmatic engineering leadership with a developer’s focus on repeatability and developer experience to accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Business Information Technology, B.S. Business Information Technology at Virginia Tech
English, Spanish
Github Skills (10)
amazon-dynamodb10
aws-apigateway10
aws-lambda10
dynamodb10
aws-step-functions10
aws-api-gateway-v210
aws-s39
nodejs9
amazon-sns8
aws-cdk7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awslabs/aws-solutions-constructs
May 2021 - May 2022
The AWS Solutions Constructs Library is an open-source extension of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that provides multi-service, well-architected patterns for quickly defining solutions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:83 reviews, 21 commits, 7 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the development of back-end functionality within the AWS Solutions Constructs library, specifically focusing on a restaurant management demo. Their work included creating and modifying Lambda functions for tasks such as order management, report generation, tip calculations, and order archiving. They also integrated these functions with AWS services, including DynamoDB, S3, SNS, Step Functions, and API Gateway, and designed the necessary API endpoints.
development-kitaws-cloudarchitectural-patternswell-architectedcloud-development
hayesry/aws-solutions-constructs
May 2021 - May 2022
The AWS Solutions Constructs Library is an open-source extension of the AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK) that provides multi-service, well-architected patterns for quickly defining solutions
Contributions:26 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year
development-kitaws-cloudwell-architectedcloud-developmentstep-functions
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