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Ryan Michael

I'm looking for a new set of challenges to take on. I want to address interesting problems and produce robust, elegant, composable solutions.

I'm interested in distributed systems, machine learning, and how to organize large volumes of data.

tl;dr

  • Real-time & batch data processing
  • Rails/HTML/Javascript/CSS UI & API development
  • Languages: Ruby, Go, Clojure, Pig, Javascript, Python, Rust
  • Systems & Tools: Kafka, DynamoDB, Redis, Zookeeper, Hadoop, Storm, Consul/Serf

Experience

Backend Systems Development @ Context.IO (Acquisition of ReturnPath), 2014 - Now

Helping to iterate legacy codebases and data stores towards scalability, performance, and reliability

  • Helping to design & build new data-collection systems and data processing streams
  • Extracted functionality from legacy codebase into microservices
  • Helped develop Docker-based continuous deployment pipeline
  • Led the development of QA systems including automated acceptance tests, staging environments and rolling deploys.

Data Platform Engineering @ ReturnPath, 2013 - 2014

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

  • Built a real-time email clustering & anonymization system
  • Built a pipeline for extracting structured data from email bodies (receipt parsing)
  • Built a Ruby framework for stream processing
  • Helped build a heroku-style provisioning & deployment system

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

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

  • Prototyped a mailing list recommendation system
  • Helped rewrite account signup & deactivation workflows
  • Implemented UI redesign to facilitate i18n & responsive design

Project Management @ Bercy Chen Studio, 2007 - 2012

Coordinated and supervised project teams consisting of engineers, in-house interns, regulatory agencies, financial institutions, general contracts, subcontractors, material suppliers, and construction crews.

  • Web Development: architectural portfolio CMS, construction cost tracking tools
  • Successfully executed projects including private residences, retail prototypes, and mixed-use developments.
  • Led design competitions investigating issues of environmental sustainability, demographic shifts and urban use patterns

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

Contact

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