Ryan Merolle
Production Infrastructure at Jump Trading Group
New Jersey, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Merolle is a seasoned infrastructure engineer with over a decade of experience building and operating network and datacenter platforms for high-performance financial firms. He’s led networks and datacenter teams at Point72 and ExodusPoint and now focuses on production infrastructure at Jump Trading, blending hands-on troubleshooting with strategic automation. Deep expertise in network design, app/network convergence, and operational support is complemented by practical automation work—he’s contributed to notable open-source projects like NetBox Docker and Arista AVD, improving startup scripts and config generation for real-world deployments. Known for client-focused delivery and team development, he pairs analytics-driven decision making with a knack for simplifying complex multi-vendor environments.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Information Technology, Bachelor's Degree Information Technology at Marist UniversityMaster's Degree Information Systems, Master's Degree Information Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology
Github Skills (21)
docker10
python10
jinja210
configuration-management10
docker-compose10
networking10
dockers10
netbox10
yaml10
ansible10
eos10
network-automation10
ansible-galaxy10
documentation10
redis9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
netbox-community/ansible_modules
Aug 2021 - Oct 2022
NetBox modules for Ansible using Ansible Collections
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 39 commits in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryan's commits primarily focused on adding and modifying options and documentation within the Ansible modules related to NetBox. They added a "cert" option, including its description and type ("raw"), to various modules. The user then corrected minor formatting and tab mistakes across numerous module files and finalized their contributions by setting the "cert" default to false and then removing the default, followed by fixing a final documentation reference.
network-automationansiblenetboxansible-collectionscollections
aristanetworks/avd
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
Arista AVD: Architect Validate Deploy
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:53 reviews, 37 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the development of the `eos_cli_config_gen` role, focused on generating configurations for Arista EOS devices. Their work involved adding support for new features like domain-list and switchport phone configurations, and also fixing conditional logic and config order. They also improved existing functionality related to VLANs, static routes, and BGP configurations, showcasing a strong understanding of network configuration generation.
cvpjinja2cloudvisionnetwork-automationcloudvision-portal
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