Ryan Matsumoto
Developer Advocate
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarRyan Matsumoto is a Developer Advocate at Google with nine years of experience building and showcasing cloud-native applications. Based in San Francisco, he blends full‑stack engineering with developer-facing work, contributing cross-language samples and tooling across GoogleCloudPlatform repos in Python, PHP, Ruby, and .NET. His open-source contributions range from a GCP hackathon toolkit that integrates Vision, Storage, Datastore and NLP features to robust Firestore samples and IAM demos, reflecting a deep practical knowledge of Google Cloud services. Ryan’s background emphasizes reliable, tested samples and developer experience—he’s shipped schema migration examples, Firestore test frameworks, and practical code demonstrating Vision API features that help developers adopt cloud APIs faster. An advocate who still codes, he specializes in turning complex cloud capabilities into reproducible, language-agnostic examples that accelerate developer onboarding.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (40)
google-cloud-firestore10
google-cloud-platform10
python10
testing10
net10
sample-size10
dotnet10
google-app-engine10
xunit10
google-cloud-datastore10
datastore10
flask-ask10
ruby10
sample-rate10
gcp10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/hackathon-toolkit
Sep 2017 - Apr 2022
GCP Hackathon Toolkit
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:89 commits, 45 PRs, 61 pushes in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the development of a full-stack web application using the Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Their work included building the backend with Flask and integrating with Google Cloud services such as Cloud Vision, Cloud Storage, and Cloud Datastore. They also implemented frontend UI elements using HTML templates, incorporating features like image uploads, label detection, and sentiment analysis. Furthermore, the user added video and natural language processing features to the application.
gcpgooglecloudbootstrap
GoogleCloudPlatform/php-docs-samples
May 2017 - Apr 2018
A collection of samples that demonstrate how to call Google Cloud services from PHP.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 40 PRs, 121 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `googlecloudplatform/php-docs-samples` repository, which contains samples demonstrating how to call Google Cloud services from PHP. Their work focused on implementing samples related to Cloud Storage IAM (Identity and Access Management), including the ability to add, list, and remove bucket IAM members. They also added samples related to Vision API features such as crop hints and document text detection. These commits showcase the user's ability to interact with and manage Google Cloud services.
google-cloudphp
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