Ryan Swanson
Founder, Head Of Infra at Nomad
Upper Merion Township, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Swanson is a founder and infrastructure leader with nine years of experience architecting highly available, resilient systems for both enterprises and startups. He has held senior infrastructure and enterprise architecture roles at Vanguard and Nomad, and today runs Init4 and Swanware where he blends hands-on DevOps engineering with strategic platform design. Known for delivering complex IAM and SSO projects under aggressive schedules, he pairs security-minded design with pragmatic implementation. Based in Upper Merion Township, PA, he brings a developer’s curiosity (his GitHub bio hints at a playful “level 16 warlock” persona) to serious infrastructure problems, often bridging legacy migrations and cloud-native adoption.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of RochesterHigh School, High School at The Loomis Chaffee School
English
Github Skills (50)
tooling10
modular10
testing10
distributed-systems10
ethereum10
blockchain10
rust10
p2p10
solidity9
portable9
foundry9
solc9
evm9
fuzzing8
smart-contracts8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
rswanson/katas
Mar 2022 - Apr 2023
Contributions:62 PRs, 117 pushes, 12 branches in 1 year
rswanson/reth
Jan 2024 - Mar 2024
Modular, contributor-friendly and blazing-fast implementation of the Ethereum protocol, in Rust
Contributions:3 PRs, 73 pushes, 9 branches in 1 month
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