Objective

A full-time software development position where I can apply my years of experience designing and building full-function, high-availability, network-centric applications using cutting edge technologies, particularly Scala.

Work

Developer, 8thBridge, 2011 - Present, Minneapolis, MN and remote

• Debugging and developing software for high-volume, high-reliability transaction processing with highly variable input and data store requirements
• Conduting code reviews for security and correctness using GitHub and JIRA/Crucible
• Helping to manage large Amazon EC2 deployments using Chef for automation and Jenkins for builds and deploys
• Using NewRelic, Cacti, Graphite, Splunk, Snort, Pingdom, Akamai, Cloud Front, PagerDuty,and BrowserMob to ensure always-on availability
• Primary point of contact for PCI-DSS certification -- one of the first on Amazon Web Services / Elastic Computing Cloud (AWS-EC2)

Developer, Minnesota Supercomputing Institute, 2010 - 2011, Minneapolis, MN

• Work with bioinformatics, genomics, and physical science investigators at the University of Minnesota to apply massively parallel computing resources in the furtherance of their research
• Modify and consult on projects in Java, Python, Perl
• Designed and deployed University-wide Galaxy bioinformatics framework offering

Co-Founder and Lead Technologist, Swarmcast, Inc., 2002 - 2010, Minneapolis, MN

• Built a team of 15 engineers from the ground up: set their goals, selected their tools, crafted their environment, defined their procedures, and oversaw quality for multiple public launches
• Reliably designed and delivered customer-facing, groundbreaking, HTTP-based, live video delivery software, both client and server systems, on time and under budget
• Personally authored core pieces of multiple server-side and client-side products licensed by Major League Baseball, Siemens, Comcast, and Roku
• Oversaw professional services groups in North America, Europe, and Asia. Tasks included contracts, project scheduling, resource allocation, and customer relations including international travel
• Managed the patent pipeline, yielding 3 fully granted and 10 pending in the US and internationally

Developer, Ancept, Inc., 2001 - 2002, Minneapolis, MN

• Wrote Java back-end automation system for bridging DB2-based Digital Asset Management web application to an on demand video transcoding system

Developer, Open Cola, 2000 - 2001, Toronto, ON

• Created original multi-source P2P file transfer system in Java using forward error correction
• Brought much needed structure in the form of source control and bug tracking database
• Worked closely with local and remote employees in a principally telecommuting position

Skills

Software Development

• Expert-level development in Java and Perl with emphasis on network programming, particularly HTTP/1.1
• Proven track record of solid design and on-time delivery of highly maintainable code
• Battle-tested debugging skills using network protocol analyzers, debuggers, profilers, asserts, or logging
• Contributed to many open source projects including: Bugzilla, Mercurial, Chef (newrelic cookbook), Galaxy, dircproxy, blohg and authored a CPAN module
• Codes in: Java, Perl, Scala, Python, C, C++, Javascript, bash
• Tools: Mercurial, Git, Jira, Bugzilla, Trac, Hudson/Jenkins, Apache, Tomcat, Jetty, Squid, Varnish, HAProxy, Wireshark, MongoDB, Ivy2, sbt, Maven, Ant, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Subversion, Puppet, etc.
• Platforms: Linux, UNIX, OS X, Google App Engine, Amazon EC2
• Libraries: Apache Commons, HttpClient, JUnit, NIO, Log4J, Google Collections/Guava, Joda-time, cxxtest, Bouncy Castle, LWP, etc.

Software Development Management

• When managing teams of skilled software developers, strikes the right balance between providing not enough guidance or too much control, and helps them to navigate the re-code vs. re-use vs. buy decision point
• Led multiple successful iterations of customer requirements gathering, design, development, and delivery while working solo, on a team, and as a team lead
• Responsible for the creation and management of successful product teams, both local and remote

DevOps/Infrastructure Support

• Setup and handled developer training for source control, bug tracking, continuous integration, and automated deployment systems
• Actively fostered a culture of documentation inside and alongside code using wikis, generated documentation, task tracking, and bug tracking
• Aggregated and authored accurate, insightful status reporting to internal and external development customers

Patents, Writing, Projects, and Links

• This Resume: Text, PDF, HTML, Repository, Making Of (You have revision 2fa5483a50f2, updated 2012-05-03)
• Patents: 7788398: Media Player Plug-in Installation Techniques (granted), 7979570: Live Media Delivery Over a Packet-Based Computer Network (granted), 12/328,139: Dynamic Bit Rate Scaling (pending), 12/252,782: Media Playback Point Seeking Using Data Range Requests (pending), 8150992: Dynamic Media Bit Rates Based On Enterprise Data Transfer Policies (granted)
• Profiles: Twitter, Linkedin, StackOverflow, Google
• Projects: Are Blogged and/or at BitBucket or GitHub. Contributed to Mercurial, Jetty, Bugzilla, Galaxy, dircproxy, blohg, and assorted small open source projects
• SwarmStream: A Next-Generation HTTP Stack for Java - O'Reilly (2005)
• Early projects at Freshmeat - http://freshmeat.net/users/ry4an

School

University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology, 1995 - 2000

B.S. Computer Science, Computer Engineering