Ryan Svihla
Senior Software Engineer at Brokk, Inc.
Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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Top SchoolRyan Svihla is a senior software engineer with nearly two decades of hands-on experience building diagnostic tooling, scalable systems, and Kubernetes-driven deployments across companies like Dremio, DataStax, and Brokk. Currently focused on Brokk, an AI-powered IDE for very large codebases, he also consults on org-wide Kubernetes practices and has driven product-quality diagnostics now bundled with commercial software. Known for turning operational pain points into automated tooling—query analyzers, automated reproducers from lineage, and log collection pipelines—he blends deep systems expertise (Cassandra, Solr, Kubernetes) with pragmatic developer tooling. Based in Bordeaux, he pairs an unconventional academic background in history with a long record of technical leadership and training, making him skilled at translating complex problems into clear, usable solutions.
4 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
History, History at Union College (NE)
French, Spanish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (25)
catalog10
aws-lambda10
semantics10
java10
docker-image9
nessie9
transactional9
spark9
docker8
vmware8
dremio8
git8
lakes8
datastax-enterprise6
logging6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
rsvihladremio/ssdownloader
Jun 2022 - Feb 2023
send safely downloader that integrates with zendesk
Contributions:22 releases, 1 review, 90 commits in 8 months
downloaderzendesk
rsvihladremio/jfr2jstack
Feb 2023 - Jul 2024
jfr2jstack
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 8 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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