Ryan Mcafee
Principal Software Engineer - Platform
Pensacola, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Mcafee is a Principal Software Engineer and platform architect with 11 years of experience building scalable, distributed systems across web, mobile, desktop and simulator domains. Based in Pensacola, he blends hands-on development, SRE and DevOps expertise to lead multi-region Kubernetes rollouts, observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, ELK) and resilient infrastructure at enterprise scale. He has a strong track record of driving technical vision, creating CI/CD patterns and runbooks, and mentoring teams to adopt best practices in monitoring, tracing and incident readiness. Previously he led full-stack and realtime engineering efforts, including isomorphic stacks and mobile simulator integrations, showing a rare mix of product-focused engineering and infrastructure mastery. Notably, he has hands-on experience stabilizing and scaling observability platforms through index lifecycle, heap tuning and capacity planning—an often overlooked but critical part of keeping services reliable.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of West FloridaPensacola High SchoolComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at University of Central Florida
English
Github Skills (76)
material-ui10
react10
react-components9
javascript9
charts9
developer-tools9
zero-configuration9
terraform9
kubernetes-service9
material-design9
create-react-app9
typescript9
azure-kubernetes-service9
azure8
helm8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
JupiterOne/helm-charts
Aug 2022 - Mar 2025
Contributions:4 reviews, 8 PRs, 10 pushes in 2 years 7 months
ryanmcafee/flavorize
May 2020 - Jun 2020
Provision a kubernetes cluster with best practices across multiple cloud providers using Terraform.
Contributions:3 releases, 40 commits, 10 PRs in 1 month
gcpdevopsprovidersprovisioncloud
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