Summary
Ryan Schader is a Senior System Engineer with a decade of hands-on experience designing, upgrading, and operating large-scale virtual infrastructures across Nutanix, VMware, Zerto, and Azure. At Farmers & Merchants Bank he served as the SME for hyperconverged infrastructure and disaster recovery, leading major platform upgrades, NVMe cluster rollouts, and automation with Turbonomic to enable seamless, application-aware failovers. His background spans enterprise operations—managing 400+ servers and complex hybrid environments—and a strong focus on distributed systems, concurrency, and stream processing reflected in his data engineering interests. He routinely bridges ops and engineering teams, reorganizing Active Directory and standardizing policies to improve maintainability and incident response. Known for pragmatic project leadership, he delivered rapid remote-work solutions during the pandemic and champions repeatable procedures that reduce failover risk. Based in Ladera Ranch, CA, he combines deep infrastructure expertise with a systems-thinking approach to reliability and performance.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Citrix
Saddleback College
MCP, MCSE, CCNA, MCP, MCSE, CCNA at Stanbridge College