Ryan Mahaffey
Lead Senior Software Engineer at The Trade Desk
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Mahaffey is a Lead Senior Software Engineer based in San Francisco with nine years of experience designing and operating cloud-native infrastructure, distributed control planes, and backend systems across AWS, Azure, and GCP. He blends hands-on coding (Python, Go, TypeScript, Node) with DevOps and SRE practices—building Kubernetes automation, CI/CD, and infra-as-code using Terraform, Ansible, Vault, and Consul—to reliably manage hundreds of clusters and thousands of environments. Ryan has led migrations that cut costs by orders of magnitude while improving capacity and compliance (HIPAA/HITRUST/SOC2), and he founded and scaled platform teams that emphasize BDD, observability, and fast integration testing. His background spans startups and enterprise ad tech, healthcare, and crypto, and includes applied research skills from a physics degree that surface in his rigorous approach to architecture and performance.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Physics at University of MarylandHigh School Diploma - Cum Laude, High School Diploma - Cum Laude at Mercersburg Academy
English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (105)
django10
docker-compose10
trigger10
django-models10
django-rest-framework10
docker10
py10
elasticsearch-dsl10
ansible9
rest9
golang9
mobile-application9
daemonset9
authentication9
python9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
mahaffey/MERN-Calendar
Oct 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:22 commits, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mahaffey/the-cocktail-wiki
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:19 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
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