Ryan Schneider
Lead Education Engineer
Florida, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Schneider is a Lead Education Engineer with 12+ years building large-scale backend systems, developer tooling, and cloud-native learning platforms for Broadcom/VMware and Heptio. He blends hands-on systems architecture with curriculum design, having launched and maintained widely used training sites like kube.academy, tanzu.academy, and spring.academy to accelerate Kubernetes and cloud-native adoption. Ryan’s background spans application architecture, SCM and deployment automation, and bridging hardware, network, and software concerns to deliver end-to-end solutions. He has led technical teams, college recruiting efforts, and SDLC/tooling rollouts at companies from startups to enterprise, and taught software engineering as an adjunct professor. Known for translating deep technical concepts into practical learning experiences, he aims to be a visible innovator in the cloud computing community.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
MS Software Development and Management, MS Software Development and Management at Rochester Institute of Technology
Stackoverflow
689reputation
222kreached
3answers
2questions
jetty
top-5%
Github Skills (129)
bitnami10
scheduling10
elasticsearch10
visualizations10
logstash10
rest10
jruby10
search-engine10
kubernetes10
observability10
java10
go10
elastic10
docker10
docker-image10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
spring-academy/spring-enterprise-guides
Sep 2025 - May 2026
Guides for Enterprise Spring
Contributions:7 releases, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 7 months
kube-academy/onboarding
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Repository for documenting the onboarding process for new contributors to https://kube.academy/
Contributions:2 PRs, 3 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 1 month
kubernetesonboardingkubenew-contributors
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