Ryan Sammon
Staff Site Reliability Engineer II at Aiven
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Sammon is a Staff Site Reliability Engineer with a decade-plus cross-disciplinary background spanning software engineering, QA/product verification, and DevOps, now focused on reliability at Aiven from Ottawa. He has progressed from hands-on engineering and CI/CD work to managing teams and leading SRE initiatives—designing Terraform/Ansible infrastructure, autoscaling strategies, and large MongoDB migrations across AWS. Comfortable in both Python and systems automation, he has driven SSO, monitoring, and deployment improvements while also coaching engineers and running performance reviews. Notably, his career began in embedded and high-assurance systems (Ada) and evolved into cloud-native reliability, giving him a pragmatic perspective on both low-level robustness and large-scale service operability.
4 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Master's degree, Mechanical Engineering at University of Ottawa
Github Skills (34)
container9
aiven9
integrations9
hashicorp9
vault9
workload9
golang9
scale9
backup9
batch9
microservices8
cloud-object-storage8
kubernetes8
aggregator8
postgresql8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ryansammonaiven/nomad-external-dns
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Set external DNS records for Nomad services
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 1 day
Aiven-Open/pghoard
Mar 2022 - Oct 2022
PostgreSQL® backup and restore service
Contributions:1 push, 1 comment in 7 months
postgresql-backuprestorecloud-object-storageaivenpostgresql
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