# Ryan Watkins

> Software Engineer 2 at Digital Foundry

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanwatkins

I recently graduated UC Santa Cruz with honors with a major in computer science. I work full time as a software engineer in the bay area.

Visit my website at rdwatkin.github.io/ryan-watkins

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer 2 @ Digital Foundry
Jan 2023 – Present | Tiburon, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Digital Foundry
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Tiburon, California, United States

### Associate Software Engineer @ Digital Foundry
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Tiburon, California, United States

### Reader @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Cruz, California
Reader for Introduction to Computer Networks. Graded student submitted labs, homework
assignments and exams in a timely manner.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Arista Networks
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara
Feature Implementation: Expanded access control list matching capabilities on TCP flags using Python and C++ to help protect networks from TCP syn fragment DDos attacks. Wrote a command to configure these settings from the switch’s command line interface.

Bug Fixes: Fixed issues with internal testing tools crashing while sending TCP packets over IPv6. Closed a false positive test case in the routing tests. Removed checks on ingress interfaces when configuring egress support to avoid improper changes to topology properties.

Testing: Wrote several automated breadth and product tests to ensure features were working on all platforms and under all edge cases.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Gemini Design
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater San Diego Area
User Interface Design:  Designed and implemented a serial communication port monitor using Microsoft Visual Studio C# which could send commands and receive data from USB.

Embedded Systems:  Developed firmware in C for a Nucleo F401re micro controller to communicate with the company’s custom board over SPI and to send and receive data through a computer’s serial communication port using USART thereby enabling the company to control their custom board from a GUI.

Scholarship:  Selected to receive the Gemini Design Engineering Scholarship at the end of the summer internship for my abilities to quickly come up to speed on new technologies.

### Information Technology Intern @ PATENAUDE & FELIX, APC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater San Diego Area
Help Desk & Data Entry: Promptly handled repair requests on a broad range of office technologies to maximize work space efficiency. Maintained and updated electronic client data daily to ensure company information was always up to date.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryan-watkins-08a523126
- Website: https://rdwatkin.github.io/ryan-watkins

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Last updated: 2026-03-20