# Ryan Dens

> Staff Software Engineer at pixee.ai

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryandens

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Pixee
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pixee
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Application Security Engineer @ Gradle Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Traceable AI
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Contrast Security
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Baltimore, Maryland Area
Worked on flagship application security product for the JVM using bytecode instrumentation to conduct high-fidelity security analysis. Let initiatives to improve product quality and accuracy, expand supported technologies, and shorten developer feedback loop to increase velocity. Leveraged Java and JVM backend technologies along with Gradle, AWS, Docker, Ansible, Terraform, Vault, Consul, and Nomad.

### Chief Technology Officer @ Hopkins Student Enterprises
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Baltimore, Maryland
Work with Hopkins Student Enterprises and its subsidiaries to develop web applications to advance their presence and profits on campus.

### Project Assistant @ Johns Hopkins University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Baltimore, Maryland Area
Created an AngularJS application to provide baseball broadcasters with live, relevant, information. This software was first used by a baseball broadcaster on May 7th, 2017 at the Hagerstown Suns and Hickory Crawdads game.

### Software Engineer @ Fleet Boat Club
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016
Implemented a standby reservation system for an existing online reservation system. This was done using Microsoft Visual Studio, C#, and the .NET Framework, as well as HTML and SQL.

Additionally, rebuilt Fleet Boat Club's scheduling site and sales using principles of responsive web design and the bootstrap framework.

### Project Assistant @ University of Rochester
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Developed an Android application for the display of scientific image sources on mobile devices at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics. Additionally, I wrote a paper on the development of the application which is published on the LLE's website (http://www.lle.rochester.edu/publications/high_school_reports/)


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
The Johns Hopkins University

### High School
Allendale Columbia School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryan-dens
- Website: https://github.com/ryandens

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Last updated: 2026-04-01