Ryan McGowan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
Missoula, Montana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan McGowan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with decades of hands-on experience building identity, security, and scalable backend systems for large tech companies. He has driven architectural vision and implementation at Lyft—leading identity, graph DB services, RBAC and microservice decomposition—and continued that focus in senior roles at Rippling and Pinterest. His background includes security automation at Amazon and full-stack web and mobile work early in his career, giving him a rare blend of product-facing delivery and deep platform engineering. Based in Missoula, Montana, he balances pragmatic engineering with a taste for tooling and automation (and a well-documented coffee habit). Colleagues rely on him to turn complex auth and identity requirements into robust, production-ready systems while mentoring teams through technical tradeoffs.
56 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Engineering, Bachelor of Science Computer Science & Engineering at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (68)
proxy10
accelerator10
cloud-native10
golang10
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kubernetes10
use-case10
git-lfs9
dynamodb9
large-files9
site-generator9
cli9
versioning9
libgit29
extensible9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
RyanMcG/personal-resume
Jan 2011 - Sep 2021
Contributions:29 commits, 10 pushes in 10 years 9 months
RyanMcG/Bits-Books
Oct 2011 - Dec 2011
Contributions:90 commits in 2 months
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