Ryan Small
Principal Engineer at Carbon Direct
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Small is a Principal Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing cloud platforms, reliability engineering, and security-ready infrastructure across startups and large enterprises. He excels in ambiguous environments, turning messy organizational and operating-model problems into clear ownership, roadmaps, and repeatable systems while remaining a principally individual contributor who ships end-to-end solutions. His background spans production SRE, platform modernization, incident response, and developer experience—delivering SOX/PCI-compliant services and supporting large-scale fleets and ML/GPU workloads. Recently he’s focused on agentic AI workflows and practical AI tooling to boost engineering productivity and task orchestration. Comfortable both forming teams and mentoring senior engineers, he brings a rare mix of systems-minded engineering, security rigor, and experience operating global datacenter and cloud fleets. An early career in international teaching and GIS gives him strong cross-cultural communication and data-focused thinking that informs his pragmatic approach to complex systems.
12 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Certificate, Python Programming, Certificate, Python Programming at UW Professional & Continuing EducationCertificate, Geographic Information Systems, Certificate, Geographic Information Systems at Penn State UniversityCertificate, Korean Language, Certificate, Korean Language at Gangnam - University of California Riverside International Education Center2006, Cultural Anthropology, 2006, Cultural Anthropology at Western Washington University
Korean, English
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
foundatron/cugos.github.com
Mar 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 months
foundatron/hardiness-club
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 7 months
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