Ryan Kastilani
Software Engineer II at The Trade Desk
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Kastilani is a Software Engineer II with nine years of experience building reliable, high-performance APIs and platform services at The Trade Desk in the Greater Seattle Area. His work spans performance optimization, scalability, and authentication/authorization for public APIs and raw event data streams, reflecting a strong systems and infrastructure focus. Ryan transitioned from a deep academic background—a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Washington and a BS from UCLA—into software, bringing rigorous analytical thinking to production engineering. He has practical ML exposure from an internship optimizing chiller plants and entrepreneurial experience as CTO of a membrane-filter startup that won a UW business plan competition. Comfortable in both research and fast-paced production environments, he combines experimental rigor with pragmatic engineering to improve reliability at scale. A former graduate researcher and repeat Trade Desk collaborator, he’s adept at turning complex, data-heavy systems into robust, performant services.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Chemical Engineering at University of WashingtonBS, Chemical Engineering, BS, Chemical Engineering at University of California, Los Angeles
English, IndonesianGithub contributions (5)
rkastilani/planets
Jan 2017 - Feb 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches, 1 comment in 27 days
rkastilani/PowerOutagePredictor
Feb 2017 - Mar 2017
Contributions:71 commits, 43 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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