Ryan Opel
Lead Software Engineer at New Relic
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Opel is a Lead Software Engineer in San Diego with 9 years of experience building cloud-native tooling and services, currently driving platform work at New Relic with Java, Go, and Kubernetes. He moved up through individual contributor roles at New Relic after earlier full-stack work at CloudBolt where he combined Go with Python/Django and modern JavaScript frameworks. His background includes research-focused engineering using R and ML toolchains, and an MS in Computer Science and Engineering that complements his pragmatic production focus. Ryan is particularly drawn to building developer tools in Go and to improving observability and deployment workflows at scale. Colleagues describe him as a practical engineer who bridges research rigor and production reliability.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science and Engineering at Oregon Health & Science UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.) Pharmacology; Biopsychology, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Pharmacology; Biopsychology at UC Santa Barbara
English
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Github Skills (36)
cli10
filesystem9
schema-validation9
dependency-manager9
dependency-management9
json9
python9
packaging9
utility9
directories9
schema9
amazon9
golang9
api9
csi9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
opelr/dotfiles
Nov 2019 - Mar 2024
Contributions:44 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 5 months
opelr/actiwatch
Sep 2018 - Feb 2020
Python module for interacting with Philips Actiwatch actigraphy devices. 🏃⌚
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 1 year 5 months
python-modulephilipspythonactigraphy
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