Ryan Nel
Senior Staff Software Engineer E-Commerce Platform
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolRyan Nel is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Gothenburg with 11 years of experience designing and operating large-scale, low-latency distributed systems for e-commerce and data analytics. At Volvo Cars he leads technical strategy across a 14-team cluster powering product catalogues, pricing, payments and orders, having architected price services that handle 30,000 requests/sec with 3ms latency and priced over 10 million variants across 100+ markets. He blends deep hands-on engineering in Go and cloud platforms with product-aligned architectural leadership, driving cost savings, performance improvements and developer efficiency at enterprise scale. Earlier roles in game intelligence and analytics shaped his strengths in high-throughput data pipelines, ML-enabled monitoring and cross-discipline mentorship. Known for translating complex commercial requirements into pragmatic platform designs, he also has a background in security consulting and bespoke SaaS startups that gives him uncommon breadth across product, ops and compliance.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Matric Maths Physics Biology Technical Drawing English Afrikaans Additional Mathematics, Matric Maths Physics Biology Technical Drawing English Afrikaans Additional Mathematics at North Wood Boys High SchoolBachelor's degree Legal Studies General, Bachelor's degree Legal Studies General at University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ryannel/bruitForce
Jan 2015 - Jul 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 8 pushes in 4 years 7 months
ryannel/hippo
May 2019 - Jul 2020
Contributions:3 PRs, 59 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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