Ryan Olson
Senior Backend Engineer at Intro
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Olson is a seasoned Senior Backend Engineer with over two decades in software engineering and 15 years of focused industry experience across finance, telecommunications, and social media. He spent nine years at ZipRecruiter moving from early-stage generalist to leading infrastructure through the company's 2021 Direct Listing, specializing in Perl-based web apps, AWS services, high-volume email systems, and MySQL/DynamoDB operations. More recently he led technology at Revival Homes, building tools to connect homeowners with financing and construction resources for accessory dwelling units, and now continues backend work at Intro. Ryan blends deep operational expertise—instance management, monitoring with Graphite, performance tuning with Devel::NYTProf—and practical open-source contributions to CPAN modules. Based in Los Angeles, he pairs a systems-engineering education with a long track record of solving scaling and reliability challenges in production. A pragmatic problem-solver, he often operates at the intersection of infrastructure, data, and developer-facing tooling.
15 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
BS Mathematics, BS Mathematics at University of HoustonBS Computer Systems Engineering, BS Computer Systems Engineering at University of Arkansas
Stackoverflow
2,806reputation
296kreached
7answers
14questions
nginx
top-5%
Github Skills (57)
perl10
amazon-web-services10
aws-sdk10
dynamodb10
sdk10
amazon10
autoscaling9
profiling9
aws9
logging9
nginx9
datadog9
otel8
pmm8
apm-agent8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
BeerBikesBBQ/.vim
Sep 2012 - Feb 2018
Contributions:16 commits, 7 pushes in 5 years 5 months
ZipRecruiter/aws-sdk-perl
Sep 2015 - Aug 2017
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 11 months
sdkaws-sdkperlaws
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