Summary
Ryan Svoboda is a seasoned Computer Systems Administrator with 12 years of IT experience designing, migrating, and supporting enterprise infrastructure across higher education, healthcare, and corporate environments. Currently at UMass Amherst, he brings hands-on expertise modernizing systems—having led VMware virtualization migrations, network and WiFi overhauls, PBX and VoIP deployments, and large-scale desktop refreshes for 100+ machines. His background spans software engineering roles early in his career, giving him a rare blend of application-level troubleshooting and infrastructure architecture skills. Known for pragmatic project leadership, he has repeatedly driven end-to-end upgrades that replaced aging bare-metal setups with virtualized, more resilient platforms. Based in Amherst, MA, Ryan pairs a WPI computer science foundation with a track record of turning legacy estates into maintainable, documented operations.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute
English, Spanish