Ryan Pedersen
Principal Software Engineering Mgr, Azure Commerce Financial Services at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Pedersen is a principal software engineering leader with over two decades of experience and eight years in senior roles at Microsoft, currently leading Azure Commerce Financial Services from Redmond. He combines deep hands-on engineering—spanning distributed systems, messaging, and cloud platforms—with proven program and product leadership across IoT, retail commerce, and connected vehicle initiatives. Ryan has a track record of building and scaling high-velocity development organizations, translating customer problems into production-ready solutions and feeding learnings back into product teams. His background includes architecting real-time trading systems, order and fulfillment platforms, and vehicle analytics, reflecting comfort across languages and environments from embedded to cloud. Notably, he has repeatedly improved system capacity and developer processes (e.g., threading and caching optimizations that quadrupled server capacity), showing impact both on code and operational efficiency. He brings a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach that blends architecture, delivery, and customer-facing collaboration.
7 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of Alaska Anchorage
English
Github Skills (38)
azure-devops8
browser8
azure-boards8
csharp8
xaml7
mvvm7
desktop7
windows7
linux7
xamarin7
estimate7
android7
dotnet7
powershell7
azure7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Nardax/segmented-woodturning
May 2019 - Oct 2020
An application used to plan segmented woodturning projects.
Contributions:11 reviews, 42 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 year 4 months
segmentedplan
Nardax/creatures-of-the-sea
Sep 2020 - Nov 2021
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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