# Ryan Churaman

> Software Engineer at Meta

Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanchuraman

Back end software engineer with experience building scalable, performant JVM-based applications with a focus on web applications and data processing pipelines. Extensive experience working with Kubernetes, Kafka, Redis, Aerospike and Postgres.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Compound
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada

### Staff Software Engineer @ Branch
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
Deployed a monitoring solution for a large Kubernetes+AWS deployment(prometheus). Set up metrics collection/exposure for various parts of the existing infrastructure(Kafka, Nginx, Spark, Kubernetes ect.) and set up monitoring and alerting on metrics recorded from them.

Additionally, implemented dynamic rate limiting for a JVM-based webhook-ing service that consumed work from Kafka, and fired webhooks based on various filtering criteria at high volume.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Branch
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Redwood City, California

### Software Engineer @ Branch
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Palo Alto, California

### Engineering Intern @ Tesla Motors
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto, California
Built tools for automating firmware validation using python. Additionally, contributed to a dashboard that visualized nightly test results that was built on Django. Became proficient at integrating IronPython based tools with National Instruments software(Teststand, Veristand) that provided .NET libraries for automation.

### Software Engineer @ Top Hat
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Contributed to a real-time learning platform used in 100s of Universities and Colleges worldwide
Implemented features and fixed bugs in a complex Django API(Python)
Rewrote an aging BackboneJS UI using React+Flux

### Software Developer @ DBRS
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Worked on a distributed computing system for financial models using C#
Used RabbitMQ to distribute and delegate workloads to Amazon AWS worker nodes
Expanded a large ASP.NET WebAPI for an in-house metric platform with a MSSQL backend

### Software Developer @ DBRS
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Toronto, Ontario
Built various web pages for a financial metric management system
Became very familiar with AngularJS and the ASP.NET framework
Optimized pages to display very large amounts of metrics using AngularJS

### C++ Software Developer @ SAP
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Waterloo, Ontario
Contributed to SAP Sybase IQ, an in-memory column store database using C++
Used GDB and Visual studio to debug the application on both Windows and Unix platforms
Worked on a query engine that optimized queries to take advantage of the column store DB


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Software Engineering
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rchuraman
- Website: http://sevenx.azurewebsites.net/Resume

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Source: https://flows.cv/ryanchuraman
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ryanchuraman/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01