Ryan Springer
Senior Software Engineer at DataStax
Frisco, Texas, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Springer is a Senior Software Engineer with over 25 years of hands-on experience spanning embedded systems, native mobile, server-side, cloud, and client platforms, currently building cloud database solutions on Kubernetes using Go and Python at IBM. He combines deep theoretical grounding in operating systems, languages, algorithms, and drivers with a pragmatic passion for clean code, simple APIs, and functional design—favoring C++23 and Common Lisp. Ryan has a proven track record migrating and refactoring large systems across languages and platforms, and has driven dev-ops and cloud automation work at DataStax using Clojure and Go. A self-starter who reads RFCs and dives into source code to diagnose hard problems, he balances low-level systems insight with modern cloud-native practices. Based in Frisco, Texas, he brings both academic rigor (BS in Computer Science) and practical impact across enterprises like USAA, Rackspace, and BSG, and is particularly averse to unnecessary complexity and bloated, slow code.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of Texas at San Antonio
English, Greek
Github Skills (11)
datastax10
reaper10
cassandra10
operator10
kubernetes-operator9
kubernetes9
sidecar8
apache8
restful7
kafka6
cloud-native6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
respringer/dotfiles
May 2015 - Dec 2019
Contributions:216 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 8 months
datastax/cass-config-builder
Jan 2019 - Jul 2020
Configuration builder for Apache Cassandra based on definitions at datastax/cass-config-definitions
Contributions:9 reviews, 50 commits, 9 PRs in 1 year 6 months
configuration-buildercassandracassbuilderapache
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