Ryan Payne
Staff Solutions Architect at CrowdStrike
Gulf Breeze, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Payne is a Staff Solutions Architect with eight years of cloud-focused experience designing scalable, multi-cloud architectures and automating infrastructure to reduce operational overhead. He combines hands-on expertise in Terraform, CloudFormation, Python, and CI/CD pipelines with a proven track record at CrowdStrike and ECS translating complex enterprise requirements into production-ready solutions. Known for eliminating manual toil, Ryan builds reproducible, version-controlled infrastructure and custom automation tools that accelerate deployments and improve reliability. He mentors teams to adopt cloud-native practices and aligns technical choices with business outcomes, bridging strategy and implementation. Based in Gulf Breeze, Florida, he brings a pragmatic, service-oriented background—from healthcare development to technical support—that informs his user-centric approach to enterprise cloud engineering.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management, Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management at Germanna Community College
English
Github Skills (17)
amazon-ecs10
amazon-web-services10
sensor10
security9
horizon9
aws9
operator9
calculation9
k8s8
falcon8
infrastructure-management8
terraform8
benchmark8
kubernetes7
python5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
CrowdStrike/aws-cspm-registration-terraform
Feb 2024 - Mar 2025
Contributions:1 release, 20 PRs, 15 pushes in 1 year 1 month
CrowdStrike/terraform-modules
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:3 releases, 3 reviews, 36 commits in 2 months
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