Ryan Plessner
Senior Staff Software Engineer at DigitalOcean
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Plessner is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in Boston with 12 years of experience building scalable distributed systems, compilers, dev-ops, mobile and full‑stack web applications. He has deep hands‑on expertise in Scala, Akka, Finagle/Finch, and data platforms (Druid, Iceberg, Postgres, Redis) and has driven large migrations and analytics pipelines for security and telemetry use cases. At Threat Stack/F5 he improved ingestion scalability, led platform observability efforts, and taught internal training courses to raise engineering capability. A pragmatic functional programmer and TDD advocate, he also contributes to open source (notably enhancements to finch/Finagle HTTP behavior) and keeps his craft sharp by attending game jams and exploring programming languages.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Northeastern University
English
Github Skills (7)
http10
finagle10
scalatest10
rest10
scala10
finch9
json8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
finagle/finch
Aug 2014 - Apr 2022
Scala combinator library for building Finagle HTTP services
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 2 reviews, 86 commits in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the Finagle HTTP service by implementing HTTP redirects, modifying the `response` package to include redirection functionality. They updated the `Redirect` object to generate a service for redirects. The user added dependencies for ScalaTest and wrote tests for the request parameter parsing, ensuring the code's correctness and robustness. The user also fixed bugs related to boolean parameters in request parsing.
circefinaglehttp-servicescombinatorscala
rpless/finch
Jan 2015 - Nov 2020
Purely Functional REST API atop of Finagle
Contributions:4 PRs, 125 pushes, 76 branches in 5 years 11 months
apifinagleatoprestrest-api
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