Ryan Lea
SVP Of Engineering at Adyen
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Lea is an experienced engineering leader with 14 years building and scaling financial platforms and banking products across startups and global fintechs. Currently SVP of Engineering at Adyen after leading banking and financial platform teams at Cash App and Square, he specializes in payments, card issuing, ledgers, and transaction processing. He combines hands-on architecture and coding roots with senior leadership—having moved from Java developer roles in major banks to managing cross-functional teams that ship mission-critical systems. Based in Melbourne, he has a track record of simplifying complex EFX and banking domains into robust, operable platforms that serve millions of customers. Naturally curious and product-minded, he prefers working with teams that inspire high-quality, pragmatic engineering. A practical technologist who still dives into design and implementation, he brings rare continuity from low-level integration to executive strategy.
14 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science/Communication Engineering, Computer Science/Communication Engineering at RMIT University
Github Skills (22)
low-latency10
java10
chronicle10
publisher10
artemis10
queue10
messaging9
message-queue9
disk9
windows-service8
nuget8
csharp7
dotnet7
csv7
yaml6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ryanlea/Chronicle-Queue
Jul 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
everythingdisksecondmessagingjava
tools4j/fix4j
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:25 commits, 15 pushes, 4 issues in 8 months
fixzerounreleasedgarbagejava
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