Ryan Nixon
Senior Developer Productivity Engineer at HashiCorp
Portland, Oregon, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Nixon is a Senior Developer Productivity Engineer with 11 years of experience building and automating cloud-native platforms, currently focused on developer tooling and CI/CD at HashiCorp. He combines deep hands-on skills in Docker, Terraform, Go, and GitOps/ChatOps pipelines with a pragmatic emphasis on standards-compliant, maintainable code. At Vacasa he led migrations from Docker Swarm to AWS EKS, introduced Terraform-based account and IAM provisioning, and drove container-first local development and robust observability practices. Comfortable across languages and eras—from PHP monoliths to Go microservices—he repeatedly turns legacy systems into scalable, automated platforms. Based in Portland, he pairs platform evangelism with practical developer UX improvements, including an in-house CLI that evolved across multiple languages.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Dance, BA, Computer Science, Dance at University of Alaska Anchorage
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Github Skills (200)
programming-language10
sentry10
portainer10
interpreter10
terraform10
docker-desktop10
infrastructure10
docker-container10
dockerfile10
orchestration10
namespaces10
terraform-module10
composer10
ecosystem10
terraform-cloud10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
taiidani/terraform-provider-jenkins
May 2020 - Jan 2023
Jenkins Terraform Provider
Contributions:13 releases, 36 reviews, 45 commits in 2 years 9 months
golangjenkinsproviderjenkins-terraformterraform
taiidani/no-time-to-explain
Mar 2024 - Mar 2025
Discord bot for managing timestamps
Contributions:19 PRs, 63 pushes, 19 branches in 1 year
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