Summary
Ryan Mcfadden is a Lead Software Engineer based in New South Wales with over 20 years of hands-on experience building scalable native and web applications, and a decade-long focus on secure API platforms and chatbot services. He has grown with and scaled products at Internet Traffic Solutions from a 10-person startup to a 150+ employee business, delivering mission-critical systems including a high-throughput bulk mailer, a company-wide customer management app, and a chatbot with a custom classification engine. Comfortable across C#, C++, SQL and modern CI/CD practices, he combines deep backend engineering—optimizing queries on billion-row tables and building multithreaded systems—with pragmatic product delivery and stakeholder communication. He also brings medical-device software experience, applying ML and regulatory lifecycle practices (IEC 62304) for FDA submissions. Known as a strong manager and motivator, he emphasizes secure, test-driven development and operational efficiency, often solving scaling and automation challenges that aren't obvious from surface feature lists.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Economics and Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Economics and Computer Science at Claremont McKenna College