Ryan Woodrum

Current

• Site Reliability Engineer at Google
• Senior UNIX Systems Engineer at Hayes E-Government Resources Inc.

Past

• Software Engineer / Senior Systems Engineer at Avvo Inc.
• Software Engineer at XKL, LLC

Education

• Florida State University

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Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Ryan Woodrum’s Summary

I have worked vigorously both professionally and academically as a Software Engineer, Network Engineer, and Systems Engineer. Understanding how these three components of infrastructures can and will interact is crucial to building high-quality systems.

I have a great deal of experience building well-architected infrastructures and software using robust, cost-efficient, and highly reliable open source software on Linux and UNIX platforms.

Ryan Woodrum’s Specialties:

Linux, Unix, C, C++, Perl, Apache, MySQL, networking, CCNA, LDAP, PKI, security, VPN, problem solving

Ryan Woodrum’s Experience

• Site Reliability Engineer

  Google

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; GOOG; Internet industry)

  June 2008 — Present (7 months)

  It's Google, of course.
  
  I am a member of one of the elite SRE teams at Google based in the Kirkland office. SRE's (aka The Cool Kids' Club) are software and system engineer hybrids charged with managing the components of Google's global production infrastructure from end to end. We work hard everyday to ensure a robust, stable, and reliable architecture for Google's many services. Providing lightning fast, highly available applications to Google's users is our bread and butter.
  
  Sound interesting and think you're up to the challenge? Join us!

• Senior UNIX Systems Engineer

  Hayes E-Government Resources Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  August 2004 — Present (4 years 5 months)

  Hayes E-Government Resources, Inc. is a company that helps to align "the business vision and goals of an organization to advanced technical architectures and specific IT solutions." Hayes provides countless networking and systems services for the State of Florida and various agencies throughout.
  
  This position involved architecting and implementing networking, VPN, and infrastructure solutions to meet needs of a great variety of customers as well as software engineering as required. This infrastructure is largely comprised of robust, high-quality open source solutions and software such as Debian GNU/Linux, Apache, MySQL, and more.

• Software Engineer / Senior Systems Engineer

  Avvo Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  February 2007 — May 2008 (1 year 4 months)

  Avvo is a website dedicated to helping consumers better navigate the legal industry.
  
  At Avvo, we have built a highly-available website and application architecture from the ground up using superb open source products such as Debian GNU/Linux, Ruby on Rails, Apache, MySQL, and countless others.

• Software Engineer

  XKL, LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Networking industry)

  September 2006 — February 2007 (6 months)

  XKL, LLC is a company founded by Len Bosack, co-founder of Cisco, working to bring "fundamental change to worldwide telecommunications." XKL focuses on building well-architected network appliances that are robust, innovative, and cost-efficient.
  
  This position involved writing systems software in C for the DXM Optical Transport System, an appliance built for affordable Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM).

Ryan Woodrum’s Education

• Florida State University

  B.S., Computer Science

  Additional coursework towards M.S. Computer Science

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Ryan Woodrum’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

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