Ryan Jones is a founder and senior cloud developer with a decade of experience building serverless-first platforms and engineering teams that deliver production-grade software for enterprises and unicorn startups. He leads sls.guru, CloudGTO, and ahpla.ai, blending hands-on serverless architecture, DevOps, security, and FinOps to optimize cost and reliability across industries from airlines to e-commerce. Known as a "serverless fanatic," he creates developer tooling that generates deployable IaC and automations to eliminate common syntax and deployment friction. Ryan pairs product-minded engineering with quantitative rigor—recently applying AI-driven strategies to autonomous quantitative trading at ahpla.ai. Based in Puerto Rico and active in global leadership circles like YPO, he scales remote teams and operational practices that mirror results seen at Netflix, Amazon, and Uber. Beyond code, he brings a practical entrepreneurial streak rooted in early bootstrapped ventures and a background in applied computer science.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate of Applied Science, Computer and Information Sciences, Associate of Applied Science, Computer and Information Sciences at Tarrant County College
Java/Android, Full Stack Web Development, Java/Android, Full Stack Web Development at Epicodus Code School
Associate of Applied Science, Computer and Information Sciences, Associate of Applied Science, Computer and Information Sciences at Portland Community College
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