Ryan Park

Experience

Infrastructure Lead (Software Engineer) 2021 - Present (over 5 years)

- Lead engineer for infrastructure. Responsible for infrastructure roadmap, security and compliance, vendor management, and day-to-day technical operations.
- Established... more

Stripe

Engineering Manager 2020 - 2021 (over 1 year)

- Manager of the Reliability and Automation teams, which supported Stripe’s main database — perhaps the largest MongoDB cluster in the world. Managed 8-13 direct reports across... more

Exit

Slack

Senior Manager 2016 - 2018 (about 2 years)

- Hands-on manager and mentor of the team directly responsible for thousands of MySQL databases, Solr search, Memcached, Redis, and Kafka. Grew the team from 2 engineers to... more

Employee

Pinterest, Runscope, Slack, Guild Education, Stripe, ReadMe

Mentor

500 Global

Education

About

Achievements

Experienced, deeply technical leader and engineering manager. I led DevOps and infrastructure at Pinterest when I joined as their 9th employee. Later I was the first employee at a startup, and an engineering manager at Slack and Stripe. Most recently I've been helping to mature infrastructure and operations at ReadMe.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Python Node.js Amazon Web Services Vendor Management Security Heroku Infrastructure As Code (IaC) CloudFlare Terraform Prometheus ELK Stack Logstash ElasticSearch Scalability AWS Lambda API DynamoDB Apache Solr Slack Vitess Redis Public Speaking and Presentations PostgreSQL Amazon Kinesis Kafka

Locations

San Francisco

Ryan Park (He/Him)

Infrastructure Lead at @readme. Former Engineering Manager at @stripe and @slack; led technical operations (infrastructure/DevOps) at @pinterest, @runscope, @the-guild-2.