Ryan Worl
Co-Founder at WarpStream
Nashville-Davidson, Tennessee, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Worl is a Co-Founder and senior software engineer with 13 years of experience optimizing conversions, profitability, and user experience for sales pages, e-commerce sites, and web applications. He combines product-focused experimentation with a performance-first engineering culture, working closely with development teams to iterate toward measurable business outcomes. Prior roles include senior engineering at Datadog and a long spell as an independent consultant, giving him deep operational experience across startups and enterprise environments. He’s also an active open-source contributor to foundationdb—adding Versionstamp support to the Go bindings—demonstrating backend and database engineering chops beyond typical product work. Based in Nashville, he blends pragmatic management training from Purdue with hands-on systems development and a knack for translating analytics into actionable engineering improvements.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Management at Purdue University
Github Skills (12)
foundationdb10
databases10
go10
key-value-store10
relational-databases10
sql-database10
database10
apidoc9
api9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
apple/foundationdb
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Database Engineer
Back-end Developer & Database EngineerContributions:14 commits, 5 PRs, 60 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the Go bindings for the FoundationDB key-value store. Their work involved implementing Versionstamp support within the Go tuple layer, including adding new data structures and encoding/decoding logic. They also addressed bugs in the Go stacktester, improved the handling of versionstamps, and refactored code for efficiency. Further contributions include fixing API related issues and adding the Go language to the list of supported bindings.
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ryanworl/foundationdb
Oct 2018 - Jul 2019
FoundationDB - the open source, distributed, transactional key-value store
Contributions:13 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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