Summary
Ryan Kather is a Data Science Specialist with 14 years of hands-on experience blending data analytics, enterprise systems, and security across healthcare and large organizations. Currently at IBM, he helps teams extract actionable insights using open-source data science and cloud-native tools, building on earlier roles designing clinical analytics platforms for Henry Ford Health System. His background spans deep infrastructure expertise—from Novell and Windows enterprise services to Linux, Hadoop/Spark, Python/R/Scala, and multi-cloud deployments—making him unusually fluent across both ops and data science domains. Known for being vendor-agnostic and solution-focused, he pairs practical systems administration and forensics experience with modern data science practices. Based in Clarkston, Michigan, he brings a legacy of tinkering (from running a BBS in middle school) to complex, production-grade analytics problems. Colleagues rely on him to bridge architecture, security, and analytics into auditable, scalable solutions.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Associates, Science, Associates, Science at Oakland Community College