Ryan R
Senior Software Engineer at Netflix
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan R is a senior software engineer with 17 years building high-availability distributed systems and storage platforms, currently working at Netflix in Los Angeles. He specializes in backend engineering for large-scale data flows—designing Go/gRPC APIs, Kubernetes-deployed control planes, and storage systems that have operated at 200+ Gbps. His experience spans object and block storage, Ceph operations, lifecycle and consistency tooling, and multi-site services for massive email delivery, showing both deep systems design and hands-on operational chops. Ryan’s background includes leading storage architecture at DigitalOcean and content engineering at Netflix, and he has a track record of scaling infrastructure to meet production performance and reliability demands. Notably, he combines legacy telecom and SRE experience with modern cloud-native patterns, making him comfortable bridging long-running operational concerns with rapid cloud deployments.
17 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
Kansas State University
Github Skills (82)
kubernetes10
go10
docker10
alarm9
api9
lua9
scheduling9
redis9
arp9
bgp8
mpd-client8
bare-metal8
mesos8
digitalocean-api8
face8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ralfonso/harvestmedia
Oct 2012 - Apr 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 7 months
apipythonpython-wrapperxmlharvest
ralfonso/dotfiles
Feb 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:90 pushes in 4 years 10 months
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