Ryan Zink
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Cox Automotive Inc.
Phoenix, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Zink is a Senior Software Engineering Manager with a decade of experience building and stabilizing high-availability systems, now leading platform and data teams at Cox Automotive. He began as a C#/.NET developer and moved into retail consulting for large-scale POS reliability before focusing on logistics, where he balances maintaining legacy Windows on-prem environments with replatforming to AWS ECS and IaC-driven pipelines. Ryan combines hands-on DevOps expertise—PowerShell, Terraform, CodeBuild/CodeDeploy/CodePipeline—with observability tools like Splunk and New Relic to drive uptime and automated deployments. He also oversees analytics and BI delivery for internal and external stakeholders, showing a rare mix of systems reliability and data-facing product delivery. Outside of work he pursues amateur (ham) radio and outdoor adventures, reflecting a practical tinkerer’s mindset that surfaces in both infrastructure and hobby projects.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at University of Southern CaliforniaHigh School, High School at Robert McQueen High SchoolMaster of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) at Western Governors University
Spanish, English
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Github Skills (59)
server-core10
messaging10
stomp10
amqp10
mqtt10
php-mysql10
chrome-extension10
message-queue10
rabbitmq10
message-broker10
rabbitmq-client10
artemis10
logging10
streaming10
pagerduty9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ryandzink/Cloudlog
Sep 2020 - Aug 2024
Web based amateur radio logging application built using PHP & MySQL supports general station logging tasks from HF to Microwave with supporting applications to support CAT control.
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years
mysqlamateurphpweb-basedamateur-radio
ryandzink/ryandzink.github.io
Jan 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
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