Ryan Sonshine
Team Lead, Sr. Cloud Application Architect
Detroit Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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RockstarRyan Sonshine is a seasoned cloud application architect and team lead with 11+ years delivering scalable, secure systems across Healthcare, Fintech, Manufacturing, and Automotive. Currently leading architecture and delivery efforts at AWS, he blends hands-on expertise in DevOps, full‑stack development, and distributed systems with a customer-first leadership style that emphasizes mentoring and continuous learning. He has a strong track record building serverless microservices and CI/CD pipelines, having implemented infrastructure-as-code solutions in production and even architected a serverless on-demand Minecraft server using AWS CDK and Fargate Spot. Comfortable moving between startups and enterprise environments, he’s adept at translating business strategy into technical outcomes and improving developer productivity through automation. Colleagues rely on him not just for technical vision but for cultivating teams that ship reliable, maintainable systems at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English
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Github Skills (23)
aws-cdk10
aws-fargate10
cloud-infrastructure10
aac10
aws-route5310
aws-ecs10
infrastructure-as-code10
dockers9
cicd9
docker9
python8
amazon-sns8
aws-lambda7
typescripts6
macos6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
doctorray117/minecraft-ondemand
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Templates to deploy a serverless Minecraft Server on demand in AWS
Role in this project:
Cloud Engineer & DevOps Engineer
Cloud Engineer & DevOps EngineerContributions:7 reviews, 38 commits, 4 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on implementing and configuring infrastructure as code using AWS CDK. They established the foundational components for a serverless Minecraft server, including VPC, EFS, ECS, and Route53 integration. Further contributions included setting up a CI/CD pipeline, adding support for Fargate Spot instances, and integrating notification services like Twilio and SNS. The user also made changes to the configuration and environment variables to customize the deployment.
minecrafton-demandserverlessdemandon-server
aws-samples/aws-lambda-duplex-stream-to-s3
Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
An example of how to stream large files to S3 from an external source on AWS Lambda using the JavaScript AWS SDK v3
Contributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 16 pushes in 1 year
aws-cdkaws-lambdaaws-s3aws-sdkaws-sdk-js-v3
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