Summary
Ryan Westby is a Senior Software Engineer in Portland, Oregon with 11 years of engineering experience and seven focused on building near real-time data streaming platforms at Nike. He designs and operates enterprise-scale streaming systems using Apache Kafka, Java Spring Boot, Go, AWS, and Kong API Gateway, and earlier shipped serverless, Node.js, and Python solutions for digital innovation and computer vision. His background spans full-stack product work—shipping billing, analytics, and UX improvements that won product awards—and hands-on infrastructure automation with Docker, Ansible, and Elastic Beanstalk. Comfortable moving between low-level systems and user-facing features, he combines mechanical engineering roots with pragmatic software craftsmanship to tame complex data flows and latency-sensitive pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering at University of California, Santa Barbara