Ryan Panos is a Full Stack Staff Engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable web and analytics platforms from front-end React apps to backend services and data stores. Currently at Kentik after leading cross-team engineering efforts at Salesforce, he has deep experience in observability, analytics, personalization, and serverless architectures. He combines practical leadership—improving accessibility, automated testing, and monitoring—with hands-on work in Java, Python, NodeJS, Postgres, Elastic, and cloud-native tooling. His background spans startups to large enterprises (Walmart, Yahoo!, Shutterfly) and includes applied research during a PhD program focused on data mining and operations research. Notably, he has bridged product, data science, and infrastructure needs—supporting NLP and ML pipelines as well as production recommendation systems. Based in Scottsdale, AZ, he balances developer advocacy and technical delivery to turn complex data problems into actionable features.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Industrial Eng and Operations Research, BS, Industrial Eng and Operations Research at University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Industrial Engineering w/ focuses on Data mining and Operations Research, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Industrial Engineering w/ focuses on Data mining and Operations Research at Arizona State University
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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