Summary
Ryan Sechrest is a seasoned software engineer and senior technology leader with 12+ years building web infrastructure, currently serving as Senior Vice President of Corporate Web Infrastructure at FleishmanHillard. He combines hands-on expertise in PHP, Laravel, WordPress multisite, JS, and Linux server automation with strategic cloud migrations to AWS and CI/CD via GitLab and Azure DevOps. Ryan has architected object-oriented frameworks that model WordPress content as objects, built REST APIs to surface PeopleSoft data, and delivered multi-language, mobile-friendly sites at scale while mentoring engineers and driving best practices. Equally comfortable writing Bash automation and managing Apache/MySQL stacks as he is designing UI-level themes with Twig and responsive frameworks, he has a rare mix of ops-to-front-end fluency. Outside core development he’s applied his skills to talent-tracking tools, Salesforce/Pardot integrations, and security monitoring (OSSEC), showing a pragmatic focus on measurable outcomes and stakeholder alignment.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Associate’s Degree, General Studies, 3.5, Associate’s Degree, General Studies, 3.5 at St. Louis Community College
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0 at Webster University
English, German