Ryan Rotter
Systems Engineer at University of Michigan
Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Rotter is a Systems Engineer with 15 years of experience building reliable, cloud-first infrastructure that keeps developer teams focused on shipping features. Based in Saint Paul, he specializes in AWS, Ubuntu, and Kubernetes and designs geographically diverse on-prem and cloud systems to support web applications with global reach. He approaches work like a Site Reliability Engineer: automating toil, hardening platforms, and making services effectively invisible to end users. Ryan brings both depth and breadth across tooling and is an avid self-learner who closes knowledge gaps as new challenges arise. His professional interests include PKI and large-scale storage, reflecting a focus on secure, durable systems beyond day-to-day ops. Long tenure at university-scale environments gives him a pragmatic perspective on operating resilient infrastructure under constrained resources and varied stakeholder needs.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science at Eastern Michigan University
German
Github Skills (121)
python10
windows10
firmware10
bash10
ruby10
micropython10
hotswap10
puppet10
linux10
keyboard10
shell10
cli10
rp204010
console10
nrf5284010
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
rrotter/kmk_firmware
Mar 2022 - May 2023
Clackety Keyboards Powered by Python
Contributions:14 PRs, 91 pushes, 38 branches in 1 year 2 months
keyboardspythonttkkeyboardpython2
mlibrary/terraform-dns_zone_cloudflare
Jul 2023 - May 2025
TF module for managing DNS Zones in Cloudflare
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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