Ryan Whitworth
Senior Software Engineer In Test at Splunk
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Whitworth is a Senior Software Engineer in Test with 12 years of experience building automation, CI/CD pipelines, and reliable API testing frameworks that drastically shorten release cycles. Based in San Jose, he has driven reductions in regression time from a week to hours and cut production deployment windows from two weeks to days by combining Java development with tools like Jenkins, TestNG, Ansible and cloud migrations to AWS and Postgres. Comfortable across languages and environments—from Ruby, Perl and C snippets to Docker—he also contributes to open-source projects, notably clarifying licensing across the widely used stb single-file C libraries. Ryan pairs hands-on scripting and observability work (PagerDuty triage, automated certificate alerts) with mentoring small teams to deliver measurable operational improvements. He’s known for turning manual, error-prone processes into automated, auditable flows that free engineering time and accelerate delivery.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispocodepath
Github Skills (4)
licensing10
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
documentation8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
nothings/stb
Aug 2015 - Aug 2015
stb single-file public domain libraries for C/C++
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:18 commits, 2 PRs, 2 comments in 4 days
Contributions summary:Ryan's primary contribution involved adding public domain license text to multiple header files within the repository. This suggests a focus on ensuring proper licensing for the project's code base. The user updated numerous files, including core components like image loading/writing, vorbis decoding, and various utility libraries, solidifying the public domain license across the stb project. These changes are essential for clarifying the legal terms of use for the libraries.
file-formatcppbitmappublic-domainstb
rwhitworth/fuzzing-utils
May 2017 - Feb 2020
Summer of 2017 fuzzing project
Contributions:2 PRs, 74 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
securitysummerfuzzing
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