Summary
Ryan Holt is an AI Developer Lead based in San Diego with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, event-driven, and serverless systems across finance, healthcare, entertainment, and consumer products. He has led end-to-end deployments and platform re-architectures—improving security flows like WebAuthN at Intuit, replatforming SaaS to AWS at Capillary, and shipping Spring Boot/Kotlin backends for Disney’s mobile experiences. Comfortable across Java/Kotlin, Node.js/TypeScript, Python, and multiple orchestration and CI/CD stacks, he combines hands-on implementation with operational ownership to reduce cost and technical debt. Ryan’s background includes building ML forecasting cores, blockchain identity proofs of concept, and high-throughput Kafka/Spark data pipelines, showing a knack for bridging data, infra, and product. He’s drawn to complex, interdisciplinary problems and consistently drives pragmatic solutions that improve conversion, reliability, and developer velocity. A master’s-trained computer scientist, he pairs deep systems experience with an eye for developer ergonomics and measurable business impact.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-River Falls
Master's Degree, Computer Science, Master's Degree, Computer Science at Metro State University
Spanish