Ryan Russell-yates
Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Halo Studios
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Russell-Yates is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer with a decade of experience helping organizations automate infrastructure and scale DevOps practices across Windows and Linux environments. He blends hands-on expertise with tooling like Puppet, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Git and Artifactory to design build pipelines and resilient cloud architectures. Ryan has moved between consultancy, product sales engineering, and cloud solution roles—most recently at Microsoft and now Halo Studios—bringing both practitioner and customer-facing perspectives. He’s passionate about teaching, mentoring teams, and translating complex automation strategies into repeatable practices. A former Marine Corps signals intelligence analyst, he applies disciplined operational thinking to secure, observable systems in production.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Network Security, Bachelor’s Degree Network Security at Western Governors University
Github Skills (34)
ntp10
puppet9
nss8
jboss7
sssd7
jboss-wildfly7
react6
nodejs6
wildfly6
stunnel6
jboss-cli6
upstart5
sudo5
jboss-eap5
ldap5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
PacktPublishing/Mastering-Puppet-5
Apr 2018 - Sep 2018
Mastering Puppet 5, published by Packt
Contributions:5 commits, 2 pushes in 4 months
puppet
RARYates/cicd-walkthrough-profile
Sep 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 76 pushes, 4 branches in 1 day
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