Ryan Snider Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

New York, New York, United States

- Served as a “Guild Lead” for Dispatch’s backend services.Responsibilities include working to ensure important upcoming businessinitiatives are met by the technology, and instituting standards toimprove the developer experience across the tech stack- Designed and developed the Proof-of-Concept for Dispatch’s eCommerceoffering, integrating multiple Order Management Services (OMSs) into asingle ad channel for client’s product catalogs- Designed and developed the first iteration of the Dispatch Ad Server, theprimary means of selecting and distributing product ads to the greaterinternet- Maintained and updated core message sending functionality to improvereliability and performance when sending messages on the blockchain- Improved and enforced testing standards by ensuring adequate coverage ofall mission-critical systems- Educated teammates via detailed documentation and presentations on newfunctionality and standards

Philadelphia, Pa

- One of two engineers responsible for building the next generation ofproxy and prospectus delivery to serve the entire Robinhood user base.Developed a resilient, reliable email pipeline using technologies such assharding and partitioning to send up to 16 million emails per day at maxvolume. Soft-launched June 2022 by sending 2.6 million emails to allTesla shareholders on Robinhood’s platform in a joint effort by Say,Robinhood, and Tesla- Developed a new email event tracking pipeline using AWS Kinesis andLambda and created a data lake for all event information relating to sentemails- Updated and redesigned Say’s Invoicing platform to significantly improvespeed and reliability, as well as meet Robinhood’s compliancespecifications. Collaborated with internal Robinhood teams to ensurecompliance standards and delivery requirements are met- Spearheaded internal tooling for frontend engineering to ease developmentof email templates, reduce error rates, and improve developer confidence- Worked in an exploratory capacity with the product team to helpunderstand project scope, requirements, and technical constraints duringthe roadmap planning phase- Mentored new hires and helped onboard them to the Say stack- Set up best practices for triaging issues. Created runbooks to help otherengineers triage issues they may not be familiar with

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

- Acquired by Robinhood in September 2021- Redesigned Corporate Actions service to improve scalability andreliability. Took core product requirements and created an engineeringplan as Engineering Lead, and ensured all steps were executed in a timelymanner- Improved security of Say’s voting platform by offering additionalverification checks before allowing a user to modify their ballot. Workedclosely with front and backend teams to ensure reliability andfault-tolerance as top priorities- Achieved SOC I compliance to meet broker requirements. Worked closelywith engineering, management, and product as well as Deloitte consultantsto ensure Say met the minimum compliance requirements set forth by brokerclients- Introduced and onboarded teammates to infrastructure best practicesincluding using Terraform and Atlantis to manage infrastructure changes- Held weekly meetings to review technical debt and prioritize issues thatneeded triaging. Used Sentry and project management tooling in Notion tocreate and budget tickets for execution- Mentored junior engineers in backend engineering disciplines, and helpededucate teammates through extensive documentation and demonstrations

La Jolla, Ca (Remote)

- Subject Matter Expert on all cloud computing and infrastructure implementations- Planned and executed a total conversion from Rackspace to AWS, including making all necessary code changes- Implemented infrastructure-level and service-level metrics for all projects, including proactive alerting to minimize downtime- Built an automated deployment scheme using Ansible, Packer, and Terraform. All code is deployed via blue/green deployment scheme using tag-based management on GitHub- Built and delivered Vision version 1, the primary SaaS product of the company- Participated in “culture” projects to improve the work-life quality of fellow teammates- Worked as part of the security team to improve the security story of the company by implementing critical components such as VPN, Duo/Okta SSO, and malware detection across 30+ rotating instances in AWS

Philadelphia, Pa

- Designed and implemented latest iteration of the Data Pipeline in Kubernetes powered by Airflow- Designed and implemented Go and NodeJS microservices built for Kubernetes to manage search traffic for clients- Helped spearhead implementation of the Site Reliability Engineering team as the first SRE Engineer- Developed infrastructure management systems using Ansible and Rundeck to automate deployment, monitoring, and infrastructure management- Set up monitoring and alerting solutions using InfluxDB, Grafana, and Kapacitor to monitor hundreds of EC2 instances and 12 physical servers in the Philadelphia-based data center- Set up CI tool to automate building and testing microservices- Built analytics engine responsible for running business logic rules on sets of data- Supported client-facing dashboard written in NodeJS- Updated Email service to handle new Email types and scale appropriately

Newtown Square, Pa

Westport, Ct