Ryan Knauer
Principal Infrastructure Engineer at Swimlane
Norfolk, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Knauer is a Principal Infrastructure Engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building and operating secure, scalable infrastructure at Swimlane, where he advanced from Jr. DevOps Engineer to principal since 2019. Based in Norfolk, Virginia, he combines a BS in Cyber Security and Computer Science from Old Dominion University with practical systems administration roots gained at the university and Alion Science and Technology. Ryan focuses on bridging security and reliability in production environments, translating infosec principles into automated infrastructure and deployment practices. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture decisions and steady incident response leadership during high-pressure events. A detail-oriented engineer, he brings a continuous-improvement mindset born from evolving roles across university, defense contractor, and startup-adjacent systems teams.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Kempsville High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Old Dominion University
german (minimal)
Github Skills (70)
ingress9
docker9
aws9
email-server9
pipeline8
helm8
kubectl8
continuous-delivery8
aws-ses8
devops8
cd8
gitops8
cicd8
kubernetes8
continuous-deployment8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
swimlane/swimlane-environment-validator
Feb 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:16 releases, 3 reviews, 24 PRs in 11 months
swimlane/turbine-status
Jan 2025 - May 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 3 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 3 months
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