Ryan Pardey

Resume

CONTACT

646 886 5937
ryandpardey@gmail.com

ABOUT ME

I have approximately 20 years of experience in the software industry. I have written code and built systems and websites for companies in the finance, entertainment and media industries. I have led small teams in person and remotely, working with engineers across the globe and in coordination with 3rd parties. I have designed and implemented large applications, microservices and APIs (gRPC/REST), databases and cache layers, and overseen the implementation of their infrastructure and deployments, among other things. I value honesty, trust, communication and respect and build relationships based on these values. I am passionate about the Go programming language.

INSIDER, INC.

New York, NY

Software Engineer V

May 2015 – Present
  • Developed Insider’s Content Management Platform (Go)
    • A suite of gRPC/REST API microservices
    • Responsible for delivering Insider’s content (stories) to multiple internal clients:
      • (1) Insider’s websites (2) Insider’s custom CMS (3) Insider’s Syndication service
    • Deployed with Kubernetes (Amazon EKS), utilizes Open Telemetry for observability in Datadog
    • Each service manages a separate MongoDB (Atlas) collection with schema validation (JSON Schema)
    • API contracts defined in Protobuf (Protocol Buffers)
  • Developed a serverless (AWS Lambda) Content Ingestion service (Go) to ingest stories from 3rd parties
  • Development and maintenance of an event driven (AWS SQS/SNS) Cache Purge Service (Go)
    • Responsible for purging content (stories) across multiple platforms
      • Fastly, Varnish and third party hosts of Insider’s content such as Apple News and Facebook
  • Developed an API (PHP) to interface with multiple 3rd party email marketing company APIs
  • Worked with a small team rebuilding Insider’s subscription-only research product (Insider Intelligence) (PHP)
    • Built an API (Go) to interface with a third-party API to facilitate subscription and purchase payments
    • Decoupled application code from database implementations and third-party APIs
  • Maintenance for many more apps: Go, JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, PHP and Python

PRETTY POLLUTION

New York, NY

Full Stack Engineer

Sep 2012 – May 2015
  • Developed custom websites within the Adobe Business Catalyst hosted SaaS
  • Extensive use of JavaScript/JQuery to provide custom functionality for clients
  • Leveraged the BC API to built custom backends in PHP

NORM MARSHALL & ASSOCIATES

Los Angeles, CA

Software Engineer

May 2010 – Jul 2012
  • Developed short-term promotional microsites for brands to promote with feature film releases
  • Responsible for entire microsite builds, front to back: PHP, MySQL, JS/JQuery, HTML/CSS
  • Developed a backend Sweepstakes service for promotional microsites (PHP/MySQL)
  • Developed a reporting system to interfaced with Google Analytics
    • Allowed clients to monitor the progress of their promotions

MOJO, INC.

Los Angeles, CA

Web Developer

Jul 2006 – May 2010
  • Developed websites for multiple businesses in the finance and sports industries
  • Javascript, PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS

FREELANCE CONTRACTOR

Los Angeles, CA

Software Engineer

Jan 2004 – Jun 2006
  • Contracted for Wolfgang Puck
    • Developed an internal document management system
  • Contracted for Cinder Block House
    • Developed a PHP REST API for a mobile app backend
    • Developed a content transformation batch process: read RSS and stored to MySQL

DEUTSCHE BANK

Sydney, Australia

Software Engineer

Jan 1999 – Oct 2003
  • Maintenance and feature programming in trading applications built in Java, C++ and Perl
  • Shell script batch processing and intranet web development

ALL THE TECH

Go (Golang), Protobuf, gRPC, PHP, JavaScript, NodeJS, Python, Shell scripting, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, NGINX, Varnish, Docker, Kubernetes, Minikube, Jenkins, Datadog, AWS, SQS/SNS, Lambda, K6, TDD, Git, Localstack, TinyGo, quite likely more.

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY (UTS)

Bachelor of Computer Science (1999)
Sydney, Australia

SAINT PATRICK’S COLLEGE, STRATHFIELD (SPC)

Higher School Certificate (1994)
Sydney, Australia