Summary
Ryan Willis is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 11 years building high-performance web applications and RESTful APIs, currently a Software Engineer II at Newfold Digital. He brings deep backend expertise in Perl 5 and Node.js alongside modern front-end experience with React and Material UI, and has a track record of improving API performance by significant margins. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs strong operational skills—Docker, Redis, SQL, DNS, and GNU/Linux tooling—with hands-on knowledge of HTTP internals and containerized deployments. He tinkers broadly (V, Go, Python, Kubernetes, low-level networking in C), which informs pragmatic engineering choices and occasional tooling contributions. Based in Phoenix, Ryan combines legacy-system fluency with a clear focus on scalable, maintainable APIs and developer-friendly tooling.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer