# Ryan Gates

> Senior Software Engineer | Cloud & Platform Engineering | AWS, Terraform, CI/CD

Location: Austin, Texas, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryangates

Software engineer with broad experience across the full stack of web development technologies as well as infrastructure tooling.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Hinge Health
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | Austin, Texas Metropolitan Area
• Developed exercise recording feature for computer vision exercises, enabling CV model
development teams to collect significantly more data from real world use cases, allowing for
faster iteration and fine tuning of ML models.
• Deployed necessary AWS infrastructure via Terraform, implemented CI/CD pipelines, and
lead development of APIs for serverless microservice designed to allow the mobile
application to implement dynamic device capability detection, resulting in seamless
onboarding of new devices to the Computer Vision in-app experience and reducing
developer hours required to maintain previous device capability detection code
• Implemented Datadog monitoring and alerting for team-owned services, defining thresholds
for availability, latency, and error rates allowing for early detection of production issues and
integrated alerts with PagerDuty to alert the correct on-call teams when necessary
• Architected backend API solution, led development across multiple microservices, and
coordinated with stakeholders to deliver Computer Vision Movement Analysis feature,
allowing members and care teams to analyze and track member progress with exercises
over time
• Planned development of new product feature set resulting in a 1% increase in exercise
therapy completion rates and enabling an increased level of user-driven personalization in
their exercise therapy
• Created and executed development plan for migration of several features to new event-
driven progress tracking paradigm, maintaining feature parity and enabling faster iteration
on features that deliver a more personalized user experience
• Investigated and implemented performance optimizations for critical API endpoints resulting
in 50% to 90% reduction in latency.

### Software Engineer II @ Hinge Health
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Portland, Oregon
• Developed features and kicked off efforts involving migration of all user data to add more
levels to the app, resulting in 4.5% and 4.7% increase in user retention and engagement
respectively
• Designed and developed new data models and features in our orchestration layer resulting
in launch of new participant programs and enabling internal stakeholders to have an
increased level of customizability of participants' exercise therapy
• Led numerous app releases by cutting and patching release candidates, coordinating with
stakeholders, and ensuring timely delivery of app to iOS and Android app stores

### Software Engineer @ Nike
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Portland, Oregon Area
• Developed API frontend in React for internal data movement platform allowing users to
register and manage data sources/sinks resulting in 1M+ messages sent using the
platform and increased data movement and observability across Nike
• Developed full stack web application in React and Flask delivering a premium experience
to interview candidates and allowing them manage itinerary, travel, and navigation around
Nike campus
• Developed features and addressed defects pertaining to the shop and buy experiences in backend services for Nike’s wholesale e-commerce website, nike.net
• Automated processes for deploying and maintaining AWS namespaces for 100+ development teams across Nike
• Created policies to enforce cloud compliance/tagging standards for AWS resources
• Managed deployment and maintenance of cloud compliance software
• Provided AWS and CI/CD pipeline support for various teams across Nike

### Student Technician @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Champaign, Illinois
• Provide technology support for users working in the College of Education building and
taking online classes
• Resolve technology related issues for users in the college
• Teach users how to setup and use classroom technology for presentations, conference
calls, etc.

### Technology Intern @ Nike
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Portland, Oregon Area
• Performed analysis and integration of Nike’s vulnerability data collected by Attack
Surface Management team
• Conducted a penetration test and created report of findings for internal website containing
news updates about the company.
• Developed front end of code submission/grading web application used to train developers
on best security practices

### Application Development Intern @ TD Ameritrade
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Chicago, Illinois
• Developed application to automatically generate DDL for 500+ objects across SQL Server database instances
• Designed stored procedures to optimize the process of resolving database related support tickets and a GUI for safely executing them in a selected database environment
• Documented REST web service used to populate form data and register a new user for the thinkorswim trading platform


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryan-gates
- Website: http://gatesryan.github.io

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Last updated: 2026-03-22