Ryan Stankiewicz
Software Engineer II At AWS S3 at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Stankiewicz is a software engineer with eight years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed data systems and OS-level components, currently on the S3 API data plane team at AWS. He engineered high-throughput data plane features at Amazon EFS—raising per-client throughput threefold and helping scale access points and CSI integrations—and now applies that systems-first mindset to object storage. Comfortable across cloud stacks, he has production experience with Kubernetes, Helm, Go, and kernel-facing concerns, and contributed operational improvements to widely used Helm charts for Pega Cloud deployments. Based in Virginia and trained in computer engineering from Virginia Tech, he publishes technical write-ups at ryanstan.com, reflecting a continual curiosity about internals and reliable operations.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (24)
kubernetes10
charts10
automation10
helm10
kubernetes-pods10
automations10
testing9
terraform9
terraformer9
docker8
k8s8
dockers8
aws7
g7
gdb6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pegasystems/pega-helm-charts
Jun 2021 - Apr 2022
Orchestrate a Pega Platform™ deployment by using Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm to take advantage of Pega Platform Cloud Choice flexibility.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:27 reviews, 7 commits, 18 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed significantly to the automation and testing infrastructure of the project, focusing on improving the Helm charts. They implemented Pod Disruption Budget (PDB) configurations, allowed for configurable image locations, and updated dependencies for Kubernetes 1.22. They also introduced the ability to inject arbitrary properties into setupDatabase.properties, demonstrating a focus on operational flexibility and customization.
googlehelm-chartopenshiftpegapivotal
RyanStan/ConiferOS
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Loosely follows "Developing a Multithreaded Kernel from Scratch" by Daniel McCarthy on Udemy
Contributions:98 commits, 2 PRs, 179 pushes in 1 year 8 months
kernelscratchmultithreadeddeveloping
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