Ryan Levick
Principal Software Engineer at Akamai Technologies
Berlin Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolRyan Levick is a Principal Software Engineer with 11+ years of experience blending deep systems and language-level expertise with business-minded product thinking, currently based in Berlin and working at Akamai. He moves fluidly between Rust, Ruby, Scala, Elixir and JavaScript, and has contributed performance-focused improvements to high-profile open-source projects like rustc-perf, wasm-bindgen, wasmtime and rust-analyzer. Known for shipping pragmatic refactors and build optimizations, he cares as much about developer experience and operational reliability as about clean language design. His background in marketing and international business gives him a rare knack for translating technical tradeoffs into measurable business outcomes and aligning cross-functional teams. Outside core infrastructure work he’s also pushed UI and WebAssembly integrations (e.g., Druid, Piet, Dodrio), signaling a full-stack sensibility grounded in systems-level thinking.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Business Linguistics, Business Linguistics at Universidad de BelgranoMasters of Arts International Business, Masters of Arts International Business at University of Florida
English, Spanish, German
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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-sdk-for-rust
Oct 2020 - Nov 2022
This repository is for the active development of the Azure SDK for Rust. For consumers of the SDK we recommend visiting Docs.rs and looking up the docs for any of libraries in the SDK.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:629 reviews, 143 commits, 348 PRs in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on refactoring and restructuring the project's code organization, specifically within the Azure SDK for Rust. Their commits included removing prefixes from subdirectories, rearranging code, and adding GitHub Actions for CI/CD. They updated URLs, dependencies, and addressed minor code issues and implemented several changes in the keyvault module. They also implemented changes in the storage module.
rustazure-cosmos-dbsupportedsdkazure-sdk
rust-lang/rustc-perf
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Website for graphing performance of rustc
Role in this project:Performance Engineer
Performance EngineerContributions:247 reviews, 512 commits, 384 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the `rustc-perf` repository, which is used to measure the performance of the Rust compiler. Their work focused on adding and benchmarking new code, specifically targeting performance improvements or investigating performance regressions in compiler-related code. The user also made improvements to the build process by updating dependencies and optimizing the compilation process to reduce build times. They were also involved in refactoring and simplifying code related to performance analysis, demonstrating expertise in performance optimization.
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