Ryanne Dolan
Senior Staff Software Engineer at LinkedIn
San Antonio, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRyanne Dolan is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building high-throughput streaming infrastructure, currently driving streams infra at LinkedIn from San Antonio. Her career spans senior engineering and principal roles at LinkedIn, Twitter, Cloudera/Hortonworks, and prior startups, giving her deep expertise in distributed systems, data pipelines, and production reliability. She combines hands-on implementation skills with mentorship and system design, having taught computer science and engineering courses earlier in her career. Ryanne’s background in both computer science and electrical/computer engineering (BS) plus an MS in EE informs a hardware-aware perspective on software performance. She has a history of contributing to large-scale enterprise and cloud data platforms through periods of acquisition and merger, which sharpened her focus on scalable architecture and operational resilience. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic architect who turns complex streaming challenges into reliable, maintainable systems.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of Missouri-RollaUniversity of Missouri
Github Skills (29)
cdc10
kafka-connect10
kafka10
java10
scala10
data-streaming10
linkedin10
apache-kafka10
streaming10
distributed-systems9
aws-java-sdk9
amazon-kinesis9
scalability9
change-data-capture9
data-pipeline8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
linkedin/Hoptimator
Apr 2023 - Jul 2026
Multi-hop declarative data pipelines
Contributions:25 releases, 174 reviews, 140 PRs in 3 years 3 months
data-pipelinedata-pipelinesbrooklincdcflink
ryannedolan/kafka
Sep 2018 - Jul 2021
Fork of Kafka with KIP-382 "MirrorMaker 2.0" implementation
Contributions:6 PRs, 95 pushes, 11 branches in 2 years 9 months
kafkakippartitionapache-kafkamirrormaker
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