# Ryan Coonan

> Software Engineer

Location: Watsonville, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryancoonan

In my career, I’ve largely focused on backend systems - data pipelines, financial ledgers and reporting, cloud infrastructure, distributed services, event-sourcing.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Joby Aviation
Jan 2024 – Present | Santa Cruz, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Kraken Digital Asset Exchange
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Building backend systems - user notifications, growth products, and trading APIs.

Key technologies: Rust, FFI, Kafka

### Senior Software Engineer @ PagerDuty
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021
Pipeline team - working on event ingestion, processing, and notifications.

Key technologies: Elixir, Scala, Ruby, Kafka, MySQL, Docker, Nomad, Terraform

### Senior Software Engineer @ Divvy Homes
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
I was responsible for architecting and implementing Divvy's financial backend systems - payment collection, accounting and ledger, and financial reporting to external partners. I also had a hand in a variety of other systems - house listings ingestion, search functionality, and metrics collection.

Key technologies: JavaScript, Node.js, React, PostgreSQL, Heroku, RabbitMQ, Express, Sequelize, GraphQL, Redux

### Senior Software Engineer @ DoubleDutch
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco, California
Building DoubleDutch's data pipeline and platform, for surfacing data-driven live engagement marketing insights.

Key technologies: Java, Scala, Python, Samza, Kafka, ZooKeeper, Elasticsearch, PostgreSQL, Docker, RabbitMQ, Redis

### Co-Founder & Software Engineer @ bootnode
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California
bootnode was a backend-agnostic cloud laboratory, suitable both for educational or training labs, as well as snapshotting and deploying virtual servers between cloud providers. I was building the software components - website, API, and core application logic.

Key technologies: Python, CoffeeScript, Django, Backbone.js, OpenStack, RabbitMQ, Celery, Redis, MariaDB

### Software Engineer @ DoubleDutch
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco, California
Analytics team, working on DoubleDutch's real-time event analytics product, both the backend data pipeline and the frontend visualizations. Previously on the Web team, working on DoubleDutch's content management system.

Key technologies: C#, JavaScript, Python, D3.js, Knockout.js, .NET Framework, PostgreSQL, SQL Server

### Software Developer @ Hulu
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | Santa Monica, California
Content platform team, maintaining and developing tools used by Hulu's content partners, as well as backend services related to content ingestion, review, and metadata.

Key technologies: C#, Python, JavaScript, ActionScript, .NET Framework, Flask, SQL Server, MySQL, Ext JS

### Backend Intern @ Twitch
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | San Francisco, California
Fixing bugs and optimizing backend code for justin.tv and TwitchTV.

Key technologies: Python, RabbitMQ, FFmpeg


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryan-coonan-b7806430

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Source: https://flows.cv/ryancoonan
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ryancoonan/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22