Ryan Oaks
Software Engineer at Google
Washington DC-Baltimore Area United States
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Top SchoolRyan Oaks is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native and infrastructure tooling, currently contributing to Google out of the Washington DC–Baltimore area. He has shipped production systems at HashiCorp and Palantir and led engineering efforts as a core manager at Remine, blending hands-on implementation with team-level ownership. Ryan is an active open-source contributor to GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules, where he expanded Terraform’s GCP support by adding resources, validators, and tests—work that improves how teams manage cloud infrastructure as code. Known for backend and cloud engineering expertise, he brings a pragmatic focus on reliable integrations and testable APIs, with a CS degree from University of Maryland College Park.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College Park
Github Skills (15)
terraformer10
google-cloud-platform10
cloud-infrastructure10
go10
cloud-services10
google-cloud10
terraform10
gcp10
apidoc9
testing9
go-testing9
api9
automations8
automation8
ruby5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules
May 2022 - Jan 2023
Add Google Cloud Platform support to Terraform
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:1112 reviews, 30 commits, 555 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `magic-modules` repository by implementing features for Google Cloud Platform (GCP) support in Terraform. Their work involved updating validator components, integrating new resources like `filestore_snapshot` and `org_policy_custom_constraint`, and adding functionalities to existing resources such as `app_engine_standard_app_version` and `compute_security_policy`. These changes included modifying code and adding test cases, demonstrating a focus on expanding and improving the integration between Terraform and GCP services.
golanggcpappenginegooglecloudgooglecloudplatform
roaks3/brulee
Mar 2015 - Mar 2020
Web app for storing recipes
Contributions:2 PRs, 82 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years
recipesdjangoweb-appstoringwebapp
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