Ryan Houck
Software Engineer (SMTS) at Hughes
Gaithersburg, Maryland, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Houck is a systems-focused software engineer with 9 years of experience building high-performance C/C++ systems on Linux, currently contributing to Hughes Network Systems' satellite control-plane and data-plane software. He has designed and optimized multi-threaded microservices, traffic schedulers, and a lossless in-order UDP-based transport, and has a proven track record of using profiling tools like Intel vTune to diagnose and fix memory and CPU bottlenecks—once increasing stable concurrent terminal capacity by ~6x in simulation. Comfortable across Python, Bash, Java, Kubernetes, DPDK, protobufs, Redis, and CI/CD pipelines, he also brings hands-on lab and infrastructure skills (ESXi, AWS migration, server racking, VLANs). A Taylor University computer science graduate with prior proprietary malware analysis experience, he combines low-level protocol and performance expertise with practical systems integration and testing chops.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Graduated, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Graduated at Taylor UniversityHigh School Diploma, Graduated, High School Diploma, Graduated at Apex High School
Github Skills (8)
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flask8
translation7
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javascript7
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
rgrahamh/gladiator
Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
Just a fun little side project with David; very early in development (doesn't work yet lol).
Contributions:12 PRs, 18 pushes, 11 branches in 11 months
rgrahamh/personal-scripts
Mar 2018 - Jan 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
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