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Ryan Michael

My work emphasizes horizontal scalability, simple well-defined organizational boundaries and pervasive introspection through logging, metrics & alerting. My tools of choice are usually streams of immutable data, distributed data stores, canonical & unambiguous interface description languages and containerized runtimes

tl;dr

  • Enjoys: building performant, scalable infrastructure focused on robustness and maintainability
  • Speaks: Go, Ruby, Rust, Clojure, Python
  • Uses: Kafka, DynamoDB, Hadoop, Storm, Consul/Serf

Experience

Technical Lead, Data Parsing Team @ Context.IO, 2016 - Now

Lead a ground-up rewrite of the team's technical stack while managing the instability of the legacy system to ensure continuity of service.

  • Collaborated with the team to redesign a legacy system at the edge of several scalability bottlenecks
  • Established a set of system tradeoffs expected to increase short-term reliability, buying time to implement the new design
  • Built consensus across leadership, sales, business-development & legal teams that the proposed sacrifices were necessary, feasible, and likely to yield the expected improvements

Infrastructure Development @ Context.IO (Acquisition of ReturnPath), 2014 - 2016

Helped redesign and build legacy systems for scalability, performance, and reliability.

  • Helped build a distributed system to generate a real-time event stream of all changes to 4mm email accounts
  • Introduced & facilitated the adoption of gRPC+protobufs to formalize internal data structures & API's
  • Extracted legacy functionality into microservices
  • Helped develop Docker-based continuous deployment pipeline

Data Pipeline Engineering @ ReturnPath, 2013 - 2014

Helped advocate for and implement a transition from batch to stream data processing as part of the ReturnPath data pipeline team.

  • Built a real-time email fingerprinting, clustering and anonymization system
  • Built a pipeline for extracting structured data from email bodies (receipt parsing)
  • Helped transition existing data products from daily jobs to live streams

Development @ OtherInbox (Acquired by ReturnPath), 2012 - 2013

Maintained and improved a large 'monorail' codebase providing consumer applications to over 3mm users.

  • Prototyped a product recommendation system based on email use patterns
  • Helped rewrite account signup and deactivation workflows

Architectural Project Management @ Bercy Chen Studio, 2005 - 2012

Brick and Mortar Architecture for a Design+Build firm.

  • Designed buildings
  • Engineered budgets
  • Managed construction projects
  • Helped develop sustainable building systems

Education

Received a Bachelor's of Environmental Design in Architecture from the School of Design at North Carolina State University; class of 2002. Graduated cum laude, recipient of the 'Undergraduate Design Achievement Award', recipient of the William B Little endowed scholarship, and recognized as a university foundation scholar.

Graduated with honors from The North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, 1998

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