# Ryan Stolliker > Backend and Mobile focused Software Engineer with 6 years of experience building AI-powered features and scalable infrastructure at Meta, Quantcast, and Google. Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanstolliker Backend-focused Software Engineer with 6 years experience who loves national parks and animals, especially exotic cats. Meta Software Engineer since 2023. Software Engineer at Quantcast 2018-2023. Google Software Engineering Intern in summer of 2017. Graduate of University of California, Irvine, with Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and specializations in Information and Networked Systems. ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 • As part of the Personalized AI Capabilities team at Meta Reality Labs, developed features that added individualized context to AI interactions on wearable devices. • Contributed to launch of Reminders feature for Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, announced at Meta Connect 2024, working with Kotlin on the Android version of Meta Wearables App. • Implemented features around synching reminders and associated media, providing a consistent experience across devices and when reinstalling. • Added metrics logging for reminders operations to track usage analytics, end-to-end latency, and error rates. • Integrated user contact embeddings to refine personalized voice recognition when searching for contacts, enhancing accuracy and ease of use. ### Software Engineer @ Quantcast Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States • Member of Common Tools and Services team building and maintaining internal applications to support other teams. • Wrote Ruby on Rails service that takes parameters from a React UI or GraphQL API and turns them into a group of configured Kubernetes objects providing users easy access to hosting, DNS, monitoring, logging, Vault secrets integration, and rollbacks, eventually responsible for running nearly a thousand user services. • Contributed to existing Rails project for managing and monitoring cronjob tasks, including improving page load times via PostgreSQL query optimizations and stability bugfixes. • Created Python application for the automated, scheduled, non-disruptive termination of Kubernetes nodes, which later was revisited to tailor to other teams' unique use cases and for cycling out old nodes during cluster migrations. • Migrated a legacy in-house user login Java service to Okta, providing additional security to users and reducing oncall tickets by roughly 10 per week. • Upgraded Kubernetes cluster versions five times, including both migrations to separate clusters where services had to be moved by me with a seamless switchover as well as Amazon EKS in-place upgrades, every time requiring proactive communication with other teams about API deprecations and deployment windows resulting in little-to-no downtime. • Maintained installations of 3rd party and vendored services, including Github Enterprise, Graylog, Sourcegraph, ArgoCD, Istio, among others. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA • Worked on Ads Experiments Infrastructure team to improve internal tools. • Updated existing internal system using C++ to reduce memory and resource usage, reducing the size of objects in memory by 75-96%. • Created and maintained documentation and unit tests. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science UC Irvine Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryan-stolliker - Website: https://ryanws.tech --- Source: https://flows.cv/ryanstolliker JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ryanstolliker/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22