Summary
Ryan Ohara is a Lead Software Engineer with nine years of hands-on experience delivering full-lifecycle enterprise applications, currently driving engineering at Northwestern Mutual. He blends strong backend and web expertise—C#, .NET, WCF, AEM/Java, and cloud CI/CD for Kubernetes—with a proven ability to translate stakeholder needs into production solutions. Past roles include building high-impact features (e.g., a product selector that doubled conversions) and optimizing performance (reducing image requests by 80%), showing a practical focus on measurable outcomes. His early leadership as an Army National Guard Sergeant informs a disciplined approach to team operations and process improvements, and he holds a BTech in Application Software Development.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Applied Science, Computer Information Systems, Associate in Applied Science, Computer Information Systems at State University of New York College of Agriculture and Technology at Morrisville