Ryan J
Senior Director Of Engineering at Muck Rack
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan J is a hands-on senior engineering leader with 15 years of experience building scalable, high-impact products and the teams that deliver them, currently serving as Vice President of Engineering at Muck Rack in New York. He has led large, distributed organizations—overseeing 50 engineers across multiple domains at Condé Nast—while driving platform architecture, global scaling, analytics transition, and high-concurrency consumer experiences. Comfortable moving between strategy and code, he has deep experience with Node.js, Kafka, MongoDB, GraphQL, and AWS, and a track record of improving CI/CD, performance, and eventing pipelines at scale. A pragmatic manager-of-managers and mentor, he pairs hiring and process design with technical stewardship to create efficient, autonomous teams. Off-hours he’s an avid keyboard collector—a small but telling detail that hints at his appreciation for craft and tooling.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (27)
timezone8
plot8
mongoose8
netflix7
java7
spring-boot7
spring7
cursor6
mongodb5
nodejs5
api5
visualization5
ribbon4
feign4
microservices4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
papajuans/zoneslider
Nov 2012 - Jul 2016
Contributions:72 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 8 months
timelineinterestingplotvisualizingmap
papajuans/infinical
Oct 2012 - Jun 2021
Contributions:25 commits, 1 push in 8 years 10 months
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