# Ryan S. > #GrowWithAlation Location: Redwood City, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ryans3 I am a software professional with over 20 years of experience in cloud applications. I have always had a passion for computers and programming. I have played the role of application engineer, sr. application engineer, lead application engineer, technical architect, sr. technical architect, senior software developer, staff software developer, and consulting practice manager through my career to this point. I am a presidential scholar and have never been satisfied with anything short of excellence. My ambition and drive is a key factor to success and my ability to excel at any task that is put in front of me. I love a challenge, especially with data modeling and architectural design work to build scalable, reliable, maintainable systems in production at scale. My general experience is in writing code, integrating systems, and managing teams (both on and offshore). Public speaking has always been a strength of mine and I enjoy collaborating cross-team on large projects that require deep thinking, planning, and organization. I will continue to pursue my interest in software as a service and look forward the learning more every day. Specialties: Golang, Python, GIT, Kubernetes, EKS, AWS, RDS, SQS, Kafka, Datadog, REST, GRPC, Agile, Java, SAAS, PHP, HTML, XML, XSLT, JavaScript, CSS, ruby, linux, vim, cloud, offshore, integrations, SOAP, architecture, software design, .NET, databases, GCE, GAE, Thrift, C#, management, IDL ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer @ Alation Jan 2022 – Present Helping lead design and build out of scalable multi tenant cloud offering in AWS, using EKS. Scaling and cost management across entire stack including apps and infra. Responsible for organization wide architecture and defining cloud native patterns with a focus on cost optimizations and efficiency. Collaboration across multiple teams of amazing engineers and areas of focus to help guide organizational direction while working directly with leadership. ### Staff Software Developer @ Workiva Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 -Designing and building highly optimized translation services in golang and java, empowering financial services related software solutions across the globe. -Responsible as a team and project leader to ensure successful deployments of new solutions in a multi-tenant microservices cloud infrastructure in AWS. -Pairing with and mentoring developers to build out a strong team and share knowledge within the group. -Leading trainings and architectural discussions on complex software solutions that are built to scale. -Optimizing best in class practices for continuous integration/ delivery through agile process (scrum and kanban), github, and deployment pipelines to ensure the highest possible quality with speed, while minimizing customer impact of daily deployments to production. ### Senior Software Developer @ Workiva Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 -Designing and Developing industry revolutionizing cloud software to make peoples lives better by simplifying complex work. -Led initiatives to build out our next gen platform and migration to microservices. Built several translation services as an early adoptor using Golang. Designed, built MVP, and led a team of engineers to migrate all our internal documents and data into the new platform. -Specifically focused on the server side of translations, for a variety of content types, in and out of the main wDesk product. -Building and deploying docker containers written in python to GCE for scalable and reliable environments for document translations. -Focus on innovation and creating disruptive products and services ### Consulting Practice Manager @ Oracle Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 As a Consulting Practice Manager in Oracle, I am responsible for a team of technical consultants, technical architects, and QA engineers who deliver best in class experiences for our customers. I have also been involved in training and ramping up an offshore team of 10+ people who will assist in our delivery of project work with the largest companies in the world. My dedication to success has been lifelong, and this position gives me the ability to have a larger impact on our organization than I could have had in just a technical developer role. I am looking forward to continued growth in the management arena and adding even more tools to my bag of tricks. ### Sr. Technical Architect @ Oracle Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 As a Senior Technical Architect, I was a top engineer in our group, the go to person for escalations, peer support, and problems that no one else could fix. During this time I focused on standing up systems and processes to support our development team and methodology. I helped architect and build a complete end to end version control system on top of git that has completely changed the way that we develop and deliver projects within our organization. I stood up and managed a private install of a third party application for team collaboration, tracking tickets, wikis, code repositories, etc. I worked closely with management to streamline process for delivery as well as accountability of our engineers while focusing on security, scalability, and maintainability. ### Technical Architect @ RightNow Technologies Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Responsible for design approvals, scoping questions, security planning and documentation, code review of application engineers, and a general point of escalation for or related to technical issues. ### Application Engineer Lead @ RightNow Technologies Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 Manage offshore resources in India and Armenia. ### Application Engineer @ RightNow Technologies Jan 2003 – Jan 2008 During this time I delivered project and integrations of all types for RightNow Technologies. I worked daily from the command line using vi to modify php, shell scripts for cron jobs, xml, html, javascript, web services, debugging, and all things related to web development for our application. ## Education ### Bachlor in Computer Science Montana State University-Bozeman ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rsseltzer --- Source: https://flows.cv/ryans3 JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ryans3/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12