Syd Ryan
Senior Infrastructure Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSyd Ryan is a Senior Infrastructure Engineer in Portland with 11 years of experience building reliable, cost-effective data and streaming platforms at scale. At Reddit they’ve driven migrations from legacy messaging systems to Kafka and Flink, rewritten internal streaming tooling in Go to cut costs dramatically, and launched secured Kafka clusters for safe PII handling. Their background spans end-to-end data infrastructure—Airflow, Databricks/Redshift, BigQuery, PubSub/Beam—and includes pragmatic improvements to developer experience like runbooks, linting, and automated CI/CD. Syd blends hands-on engineering with mentorship and process improvements, routinely documenting patterns and helping teams adopt new platforms. A mathematician by training, they bring an analytical mindset to performance tuning and system design, having delivered substantial latency and cost reductions across multiple roles. Colleagues would describe them as a thoughtful engineer who privileges clear documentation and early feedback to reduce operational friction.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Mathematics at Grinnell CollegeMathematics, Mathematics at Budapest Semester in Mathematics
English, Spanish
Github Skills (15)
python-client10
gevent10
monitoring10
crash-reports10
sentry10
reddit10
monitor10
devops10
python10
django10
apm10
performance-monitoring9
error-logging9
asyncio7
golang6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sydjryan/baseplate.py
Nov 2022 - Mar 2023
reddit's python service framework
Contributions:64 pushes in 4 months
pythonpython-3-6geventpython3pure-python
sydjryan/crd-codegen
Dec 2024 - Dec 2024
Generate Go types from a Kubernetes CustomResourceDefinition
Contributions:1 PR, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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