Ryan Stephens
Principal Software Engineer at Ada
Thornton, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Stephens is a Principal Software Engineer with over a decade of experience designing and rebuilding production-grade web and mobile platforms across startups and enterprise teams. He combines deep backend expertise in Java, Ruby on Rails, Go, and AWS with front-end skills in React.js and mobile work in React Native/Android, having led full rewrites and API/product integrations. Career highlights include technical leadership roles at Twilio and architecting a ground-up rebuild of AngelMD’s API, web UI, and native mobile apps using GraphQL, Docker, and Terraform. He’s experienced in high-throughput stream processing, distributed system design, and leading distributed/offsite teams to deliver resilient services. Based in Thornton, Colorado, he brings both hands-on implementation ability and strategic architecture judgment, often translating complex customer requirements into pragmatic, scalable solutions. Beyond core stacks, Ryan’s background shows a consistent pattern of modernizing legacy systems and shipping cloud-native architectures.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Computer Science, Masters Computer Science at Colorado State University
English
Github Skills (25)
atlas10
mongodb9
jupyter-notebook9
python8
generative-ai8
artificial-intelligence8
ai-agent7
terraform7
graph7
retrieval-augmented-generation6
industrial-automation6
scalable6
messaging6
pubsub5
infrastructure-as-code5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rstephen/angel-auth
Nov 2019 - Jan 2020
Redux/Axios rotating token auth support
Contributions:27 commits, 1 PR, 16 pushes in 2 months
authaxiosredux
rstephen/GenAI-Showcase
Mar 2025 - Apr 2025
GenAI Cookbook
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
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