# Rylan W. Hazelton > ... Location: Santa Cruz, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rylanwhazelton I have a successful track record of shipping products. What do you want to ship? I have been programming and involved with technology since I taught myself BASIC when I was 10. In high school, I was a volunteer network admin that helped connect my school to the internet for the very first time. This was my stepping stone to an early career in technology where I started programming. Feeling confident that I knew what I wanted to do, I chose experience over college and jumped directly in. I have experience across a whole gamut of small to large companies. I’ve founded, failed, and exited companies. I’ve invented, architected, built, and shipped products from ideation to market. I continue to absorb and master new languages and technologies. I seek to apply my experience in solving new problems, designing systems and infrastructure, and continuing my personal and professional growth. ## Work Experience ### Principal Software Engineer - Fintech/Money - AI Center Of Excellence @ Intuit Jan 2023 – Present ### Principal Software Engineer - Futures - Crypto Center of Excellence @ Intuit Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Building the next great things, focusing on crypto technologies ### Principal Software Engineer - Cloud Engineering & Operations @ Intuit Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Mountain View, California, United States Designed, built and supported a number of key services that supported Intuit's AWS infrastructure and platform tools. ### Advisor/CTO @ PokerCoaching.com Jan 2019 – Present | Virtual Advise and assist on technical aspects for leading poker coaching/training site ### Cloud Software Architect - Acquihire @ Intel Corporation Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Head Of Cloud - Chief Architect @ Naked Labs Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area Designed and deployed all of Naked's cloud and system infrastructure. Systems I built or contributed to: cloud web services (nodejs/hapi), CI/CD and build systems (circleci/docker), custom linux distribution (yocto), OTA system and control code (mender), aws infrastructure (terraform/ansible), kubernetes, custom validation test infrastructure, web hosting, mobile app development, analytics. ### CTO @ Drive Motors Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area Headed engineering team and systems architecture. Drive Motors provides e commerce/checkout for car dealerships. Full stack development, Designed, developed and implemented simple single script install to deploy dealership websites, integrated with dozens of 3rd party data sources, for vehicle information, pricing, payments, etc. Built UI and frontend (react) for customer checkout. Hosted on AWS, entirely CI/CD, monitored ### Principal Engineer - Acquihire @ Yahoo Jan 2013 – Jan 2016 | Sunnyvale, CA Joined Yahoo as Acquihire via Hitpost. Initially I was tasked with helping improve stability and performance of Rivals.com an ASP classic site on MSSQL. Switching to writing ATS (Apache Traffic Server) plugins in C++, one plugin provided realtime translation of pages to http to https the other powered displaying interstitial ads to mobile users across all yahoo media properties. Finally I was tapped to be the Lead/Designing Backend Architect for Yahoo's new Daily Fantasy sports application. Which we flawlessly delivered Yahoo's first full stack new application in at least a decade earlier this year. ### Sr. Engineer @ Social Concepts Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Redwood City, CA ### Lead Architect @ Hitpost Inc. - Acquired by Yahoo Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 Acquired by Yahoo! Brought on board to lead backend/api rewrite for social sports betting platform, and also migrate application site off of Google App Engine to Amazon AWS. Handled initial OPS tasks too. ♦ Technologies: Python, Django, Redis, Memcache, MongoDB, ObjectRocket, Graph DB, AWS Contractor from 1/13 to 9/13 ### CTO/Architect @ Multiple Startups Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Took time off to try to help launch two startups. One failed to gain user adoption, the other failed to find funding. ### Sr. Engineer @ Self Aware Games/Social Concepts Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 Sr. lead developer on a variety of web apps, games, and mobile games for Social Concepts and spinoff Self Aware Games (acquired by Big Fish Games). ♦ Lead backend developer on Big Fish Casino (formerly Ace Casino), the #1 casino app for iTunes App Store, top grossing on iOS, Android, Palm ♦ Lead developer of various other iOS and Web games, including backend architecture and client frameworks ♦ Technologies: procedural & oo php5, memcache, mysql, java, javascript, smarty, objective c, java (android), flex, lighttpd, nginx ### CTO @ Petersen Ventures LLC Jan 2000 – Jan 2011 As a side project, developed leading Honda forum (www.s2ki.com), grew to top 10 automotive forums on internet, sold to Internet Brands • Co-developed whole site in PHP & MySQL, including 3 full revisions. Site based on existing/purchased tools, but site is very custom • Site Hosted on Linux. PHP, Ruby, MySQL - Consists of cluster of 8 servers. Hosted in Fremont, CA • Acquired by Internet Brands (www.internetbrands.com) ### Director of IT & Development @ All Rides, Inc Jan 2007 – Jan 2008 | Santa Cruz, CA USA Ridegear.com • Ran all technical aspects of business operation, including development, hosting and IT. • Site Hosted on Linux. Perl, PHP, MySQL - Hosted at Rackspace in TX ### IT Manager & Lead Software Engineer @ e frontier/ Curious Labs, Inc Jan 2001 – Jan 2007 • e frontier Japan purchased Curious Labs in April 2004 and changed the company name to match parent in February 2005. • I developed a very successful & scalable ecommerce site in PHP/MySQL that sold digital files for company application (Poser). Very custom development utilizing publicly available php libraries. Site currently has over 50 vendors selling products. http://www.contentparadise.com/ • Deployed and implemented Google Mini for product and site searching and JasperReports for sales and user reporting. • In 11/2006 e frontier switched web store from Digital River service to same commerce platform as Content Paradise for significant savings. Site handled presales and initial download of company’s core application and direct sales of all company’s applications. http://store.e-frontier.com/ • Managed staff and assisted in maintenance of all e frontier network systems. Both in house and at co-location facility. Clustered websites using Lighttpd, FastCGI, PHP and MySQL ### Director of IT @ Grey Zone Jan 2000 – Jan 2001 | Santa Cruz, CA ### Senior Network Administrator @ West Marine Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 | Watsonville, CA ### Automation and Robotics Programmer @ Oliver Design, Inc Jan 1996 – Jan 1999 I programmed robots for cleaning hard disks and silicon wafers. ## Education ### Working No College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rylanhazelton - Portfolio: http://www.rylan.org --- Source: https://flows.cv/rylanwhazelton JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rylanwhazelton/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-12