Ryan Smith
Senior Software Engineer at Recursion
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Smith is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of interdisciplinary experience bridging academic genomics and production cloud data engineering. He has spent the last five years building and scaling cloud data infrastructure—most recently architecting transcriptomics and omics data systems at Recursion—after earlier work on real-time data platforms and distributed databases at Amazon/eero. His background as a PhD-ABD molecular geneticist and hands-on bioinformatics analyst gives him a rare ability to translate complex biological workflows into robust, scalable engineering solutions. Based in Salt Lake City, he focuses on reliability and efficiency in high-throughput data pipelines and is comfortable operating at the intersection of research-grade genomics and enterprise-grade infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree (PhD ABD) Molecular Genetics and Genomics, Master's degree (PhD ABD) Molecular Genetics and Genomics at Washington University in St. LouisBachelor of Science (BS) Microbiology and Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Microbiology and Informatics at University of Iowa
English, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
charts10
helm9
package-manager8
kubernetes8
png6
latex5
circleci5
pdf5
bioinformatics4
pipeline4
genomics4
bam2
python2
cython2
sam1
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
RPSeq/bwa-mei
Jun 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:52 commits, 2 PRs, 42 pushes in 5 months
pipelinepolymorphicngsmeings-data
RPSeq/resume
Jan 2018 - Aug 2024
My resume in LaTeX, based on Sourabh Bajaj's resume template. Builds PDF and PNG on push using CircleCI.
Contributions:1 PR, 214 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 8 months
pushpdfbuildscirclecilatex
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