Summary
Ryan Ratcliff is a Principal Engineer with over two decades of software experience and more than a decade in senior engineering and leadership roles, currently based in Indianapolis. He has evolved from developing large-scale C systems on OpenVMS to leading cloud-native Java and AWS architectures for genomics and telecom platforms, owning core services and pipelines. At LifeOmic he led the genomics processing pipeline, normalizing VCF/BAM data and implementing GA4GH-compatible services, and he has deep hands-on experience with AWS Step Functions, Batch, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, SNS/SQS, and Fargate. Known for mentoring teams and translating clinician and vendor needs into automated, interoperable solutions, he combines strong domain knowledge in healthcare/genomics with practical production engineering. Career highlights include team leadership across distributed global teams and a track record of moving legacy systems to modern, serverless and microservice architectures. He’s curious about new technologies and consistently applies that curiosity to simplify complex data workflows and improve operational reliability.
11 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Software Development, Bachelor of Technology (B.Tech.) Software Development at Indiana University Indianapolis
English