# Ryan B. > Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanb I specialize in scaling data-intensive distributed systems. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Airbyte Jan 2023 – Present Rearchitecting the data-loading SDK for 250% greater throughput in 15% of the code Scaling dynamic k8s workloads 50x and growing Enabling AI development workflows for agent developers with deterministic guardrails Kotlin/Micronaut/Kubernetes/Claude ### Lead Software Engineer @ New Relic, Inc. Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Senior Software Engineer @ New Relic, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Architecting and maintaining petabyte scale, millisecond latency streaming systems for time series data Java/Spring/Kafka/Postgres TypeScript/React/Redux ### Senior Application Engineer @ Nike Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 Leading development on internal APIs and applications for innovation org React/Redux Node/Express/Postgres ### Software Engineer @ Olio Apps Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Portland, Oregon Area Leading web application development for over 10 local and bay area startups React/Redux/React-Native/JavaScript Golang/Gin Ruby/Sinatra ### Coffee Program Manager @ Baked & Wired Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Washington D.C. Led coffee program to be voted Washingtonian reader’s favorite cafe of 2013 and named best coffee shop in D.C. by Business Insider 2013 Developed training program, curated coffee menu and roaster rotation, handled supplier communication and outreach Devised and implemented a digital inventory system to oversee appropriate coffee aging and forecasting of perishable inventory consumption to reduce waste and improve quality ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Japanese Language and Literature Portland State University Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 ### Japanese Language KCP Nihongo Senmon Gakkou Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tryangul --- Source: https://flows.cv/ryanb JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ryanb/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22