Ryan Spencer
Principal Engineer at QSIC
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Spencer is a Principal Engineer based in Sydney with over a decade of hands-on experience building high-performance data stores, query engines, AI/ML pipelines, cloud offerings, and analytics tooling. He combines deep systems-level expertise with a track record of shaping high-performing teams and engineering processes that favor experimentation and psychological safety. Comfortable moving between architecture and implementation, he has repeatedly delivered scalable systems across startups and product-focused companies like Dovetail, Kinesis Australia, and FL0. Fluent in French and an avid writer, he documents technical thinking and practical lessons on his blog, reflecting a habit of making complex ideas accessible. His background in photography and imaging informs a practical sensitivity to UX and data fidelity that often surfaces in his system designs.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Photography and Imaging, Photography and Imaging at ArtCenter College of DesignUNSW Sydney
FrenchGithub contributions (5)
ryan-was/tweet-blender
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
ryan-was/homestead-vagrant
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:2 pushes in 2 months
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