Ryan Shirley
Site Reliability Engineering Lead at DPG Solutions
Brighton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Shirley is a Site Reliability Engineering lead with a decade of hands-on experience in systems, networking, and security, blending military-grade discipline from five years as a US Army senior system administrator with civilian SRE practice. He designs and operates resilient infrastructure across the full OSI stack and has progressed rapidly from Linux system administration to leading SRE teams at DPG Solutions. Known for strong soft skills, he focuses on building cohesive teams, mentoring peers, and raising the collective skill floor while delivering measurable uptime and reliability improvements. Based in Brighton, Colorado, Ryan transitioned to the civilian tech sector in March 2023 and brings a practical, service-oriented mindset honed under operational pressure. He pairs technical depth with an architect’s eye for systems and a leader’s commitment to team well-being, making him effective both as a hands-on engineer and as a people-first manager.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Western Governors UniversityAssociate of Science - AS Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications, Associate of Science - AS Computer Systems Networking and Telecommunications at Cochise College
Github Skills (11)
google-sheets9
laravel8
user-input7
chatbot6
api6
django6
mysql6
vue4
javascript3
react2
cryptocurrency2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
ryan-shirley/Shirley-Trips
May 2019 - Aug 2019
A holiday itinerary website to store hotel & flight details along with user input comments and photos.
Contributions:39 commits in 3 months
flightapiitineraryjavascriptuser-input
ryan-shirley/Guides-Expense-Income-Tracking
Sep 2019 - Oct 2019
Income & expense tracking for multiple leaders in a small organisation.
Contributions:26 commits in 17 days
google-sheetsmysqldjangoexpenseincome-expense
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