Summary
Ryan Mellmer is a Machine Learning Software Engineer with 9 years of hands-on experience building full-stack and cloud-native systems from Portland, OR. He designs and ships ML and AI pipelines using Go, Python, Java (Spark), Kafka, ElasticSearch, Postgres, and vector embedding stores, and runs containerized workloads across AWS, Azure, and GCP with Terraform/Ansible and Kubernetes. Prior roles at Plixer and McAfee show a track record of improving system efficiency through backend services in C#, C++, and Python and operating large MongoDB and SQL Server deployments. He also mentors interns and helped establish an engineering internship program, showing an interest in growing engineering talent. His background in web technologies (React, JS, PHP) and low-level languages (C++, Java) lets him bridge product-facing interfaces and scalable data infrastructure. Outside core duties he documents work through a public portfolio and blog, signaling a commitment to sharing practical learnings.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Portland State University