Summary
Ryan Roper is a senior software engineer with over 15 years of technical breadth and a decade of hands-on professional experience delivering scalable data and simulation solutions. He combines systems-level C/C++ and Java/C# development with Python and PySpark expertise to build ETL pipelines, ML feature generation, and domain-specific extensions for scientific and biomedical applications. At Verantos and the Institute for Systems Biology he scaled EHR feature extraction and knowledge graph resources over millions of patients, improving cohort identification and powering translational research. His background in simulation engineering and academic bioengineering gives him a rare mix of production software rigor and deep modeling intuition—he has built plugins that bridge Python into simulation platforms and coauthored peer-reviewed computational biology work. Based in Greater Seattle, he’s comfortable translating complex domain requirements into reusable, validated code that drives research and product outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Bioengineering, Master of Science, Bioengineering at University of Washington
Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering; Neuroscience, Bachelor of Science, Mechanical Engineering; Neuroscience at Brigham Young University
English, French