Summary
Ryan Kahil is a Senior CloudOps Engineer based in Boston with a decade of hands-on experience building and automating cloud platforms across AWS, XenServer, and hybrid environments. He blends strong software foundations in Java and Python with daily Postgres work and infrastructure automation using Ansible, Vagrant, Chef, and custom Lambda scripts to replace legacy cron processes. At Foundation Medicine and prior roles at Blue State Digital and NPR he led migrations, data-center moves, VM orchestration, and operational hardening while documenting SOPs and improving runbooks. Known for pragmatic scripting and tooling—often replacing manual ops with serverless or automated workflows—he enjoys chess and community networking, reflecting a methodical, curious approach to problem solving.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Salem State University
English, Spanish