Ryan Parker
Frontend Engineer at PLEJ LC
Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Parker is an AI Engineer and founder with 10 years of experience building user-focused web and cloud experiences, currently serving at the U.S. Department of the Treasury and running a UX-first consultancy, PLEJ LC. He combines frontend leadership and infrastructure expertise from roles at AWS—where he shipped UI features like the CDK Tree View and helped bring cdk8s+ to GA—with hands-on DevOps work automating CI/CD and test pipelines. A prolific open-source contributor to high-profile projects such as the AWS CDK and cdk8s, he’s fixed EKS provisioning bugs, hardened security validations, and improved documentation and build tooling. Based in Des Moines, he uniquely bridges government, enterprise cloud platforms, and startup product work, and often surfaces operational insights through tooling like issue-trend dashboards and CI visualizations.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at Iowa State UniversityAssociate's degree Liberal Arts and Sciences, Associate's degree Liberal Arts and Sciences at Des Moines Area Community CollegeWaukee High School
Spanish
Github Skills (42)
route5310
hugo10
aws-cdk10
typescript10
bash10
cloud-infrastructure10
cicd10
aws10
amazon-s310
ci-cd-pipeline10
typescript-types10
aws-s310
infrastructure-as-code10
typescripts10
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
aws-samples/aws-cdk-intro-workshop
Aug 2021 - Aug 2022
Introduction to the AWS CDK - Workshop
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure Engineer
Cloud Engineer / Infrastructure EngineerContributions:53 reviews, 63 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on infrastructure and deployment aspects of the AWS CDK workshop. Their commits include modifications to build processes, dependencies, and the structure of deployment pipelines. They also addressed issues related to lambda function deployment and asset handling within the CDK framework. Additionally, the user made contributions to the pipeline configuration and added features.
workshopcdkaws-cdkaws
aws-samples/aws-cdk-examples
Jul 2021 - Aug 2022
Example projects using the AWS CDK
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer & DevOps Engineer
Full-stack Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:222 reviews, 35 commits, 22 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the AWS CDK examples repository, focusing on implementing serverless applications with AppSync, GraphQL, and DynamoDB. Their work involved setting up API keys, defining GraphQL schemas, and configuring resolvers. They also addressed CI/CD pipeline issues, including refactoring build scripts and correcting deployment processes. Furthermore, they implemented a static site deployment using S3, Route53, and CloudFront.
cloud-infrastructureexample-projectsawscdkaws-cdk
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