Ryan Watkins
Senior Software Engineer at Roku
England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRyan Watkins is a Senior Software Engineer based in England with a decade of experience building scalable, production-grade systems across consumer devices and cloud platforms. He has shipped embedded and streaming products for RokuOS and Fire TV and previously architected high-throughput backend services—such as a pricing engine handling millions of parking requests and ANPR ML edge integrations—while modernizing deployments with Kubernetes and autoscaling. Comfortable across the full stack, Ryan has delivered multi-region mobile health apps and helped migrate large e-commerce sites to microservices and SPAs that serve millions globally. Known for pragmatic engineering and operational ownership, he blends hands-on coding with platform thinking to turn complex requirements into robust, scalable products.
10 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 University of Reading
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Github Skills (85)
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Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
watkinsr/dotfiles
Jun 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:201 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
watkinsr/SQASM
Dec 2015 - Dec 2024
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 9 years 1 month
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