Ryan Uber
Principal Engineer at HashiCorp
Oceanside, California, United States
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RockstarRyan Uber is a Principal Engineer at HashiCorp with 13 years of experience building resilient backend systems and distributed infrastructure. He has deep expertise in orchestration and service tooling, evidenced by substantial contributions to flagship HashiCorp projects like Nomad and Terraform, plus work across Consul, Serf, and memberlist. Ryan blends systems engineering and DevOps sensibilities—implementing low-level storage and raft backends, improving API ergonomics, and hardening retry and networking libraries. He’s led Terraform Enterprise efforts and also contributes to docs and website content, showing a pragmatic balance of engineering and user-facing clarity. Based in Oceanside, CA, he brings a track record of shipping production-ready features and subtle robustness improvements such as multi-key decryption support and nuanced retry/logging hooks that reduce operational toil.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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apim10
cloud-computing10
testing10
command-line-interface10
http10
render10
terraform10
consul10
encryption10
concurrency10
repository-pattern10
debian10
rendering10
boltdb10
digitalocean10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/raft-boltdb
Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
Raft backend implementation using BoltDB
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryan implemented the backend for a Raft backend implementation using BoltDB. They added functionalities such as initializing buckets, implementing FirstIndex, LastIndex, GetLog, StoreLog, StoreLogs and DeleteRange methods. They also added methods to interact with a key/value store, including SetKey and Get, Set and GetUint64. The user's work primarily focused on creating and manipulating the underlying data storage mechanisms of the Raft implementation using BoltDB.
consensusboltdbbackenddatabaseraft
hashicorp/go-retryablehttp
Dec 2015 - Oct 2021
Retryable HTTP client in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 13 reviews, 33 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Ryan significantly enhanced the `go-retryablehttp` library by adding several convenience methods such as `Get`, `Head`, `Post`, and `PostForm`, streamlining the process of making HTTP requests. They introduced features like `RequestLogHook` and `ResponseLogHook`, allowing for greater control and customization of logging during request execution and response handling. Furthermore, they improved the library's robustness by implementing default retry policies and modifying retry logic, especially for TLS and redirect errors.
golanghttp-clientretryable
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