Ryan Lynch

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Director of Engineering for Data and Infrastructure @ Centr
Ryan Lynch's Location
Escondido, California, United States, United States
About Ryan Lynch

Global software engineering leader with proven capability to create and manage large distributed teams and design and build systems and applications that operate under the highest requirements for uptime, scalability, performance, and maintainability. Broad business domain experience includes finance, e-commerce, account and identity, video compression and delivery, and online advertising.

Ryan Lynch's Current Company Details
Centr

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Director of Engineering for Data and Infrastructure
Ryan Lynch Work Experience Details
  • Centr
    Director Of Engineering
    Centr Apr 2024 - Present
    Los Angeles, California, Us
  • Sony Interactive Entertainment
    Director Of Engineering And Operations
    Sony Interactive Entertainment Sep 2022 - Mar 2024
    San Mateo, California, Us
    Director of Account and Identity services teams responsible for SIE and Sony wide systems. Led team of over 45 team members consisting of 6 managers and scrum teams. The systems the team built were responsible for areas including account and family management, authentication, authorization, external account linking, device registration and notifications (SMS, email, console). Engineering leader for a product delivery group responsible for secure accounts, trust and safety, and customer service. * Delivered on several key product initiatives such as enabling passkey authentication, providing age verification as well as several third party account linking integrations including Discord and YouTube.* Drove strong team culture enabling increased engagement survey results after I started role and well above the company average.* Account and Identity systems handled over 900 million accounts with 100+ million active daily users requiring strong operations capability, scaling, security, and availability. * Partnered with fraud and security teams to prevent and identify account takeovers and other hacks.* Responsible for forecasting and budgeting for my group including multi-million dollar variable cost contracts.
  • Sony Interactive Entertainment
    Senior Engineering Manager
    Sony Interactive Entertainment Jul 2019 - Sep 2022
    San Mateo, California, Us
    Led and managed the PlayStation Network core commerce teams which included 20 team members including manager, development, and quality engineers. The team was responsible for migrating from a legacy monolithic C++ commerce stack to a more flexible Java microservices stack which handled over $16 billion a year in sales. Also responsible for developing several key product initiatives which included enhanced subscription tiering and loyalty. Showed strong cultural leadership and successfully lead a team that has lost 2 directors since I have joined.* Increased engagement survey results by 11 points in my first year and 9 points in the following year. My team had a +14 score compared with the company in team satisfaction and collaboration. * No regrettable losses of team members while having 2 underperforming members leave voluntarily. Grew team by 3 engineers and 2 contractors.* Successfully disbanded a legacy scrum team of 4 and got them on new teams in SIE including 2 outside of my organization.* Leadership representative of Challenge Status Quo tiger team.
  • Intuit
    Group Development Manager
    Intuit Apr 2015 - Jul 2019
    Mountain View, California, Us
    Managed a diverse set of product development teams which grew to around 30 engineers and team development managers. * Intuit Platform Team responsible for shared code/systems used throughout Intuit. * Standardized Java Services Library. * Shared caching service. * Configuration as a Service. * Consumer Group Developer Productivity Team responsible for tools and processes to aid developer productivity. * Managed several product experience development teams for TurboTax which included development and quality engineers. Worked with senior leadership, architecture, product management, design, and program management to plan and execute on the various product and technology roadmaps. All experiences used JavaScript and other front end technologies including React, Redux, and Angular. Also responsible for all associated backend orchestration services written in Java with Spring. * TurboTax Marketing website * In Product Upsells and monetization * Major tax section on/off ramps, landing tables * My TurboTax Dashboard
  • Intuit
    Development Manager
    Intuit Jul 2013 - Apr 2015
    Mountain View, California, Us
    Development manager for the TurboTax Online systems team of 8 Java/C++ engineers. Responsible for various aspects of the tax preparation experience which is responsible for over 2 billion dollars a year in revenue.* REST Services utilized by various UI engineering teams.* Build and Deployment systems of TurboTax Online* Performance testing and optimization of production infrastructure* Coordination with operations and IT departments in support of hosted and cloud-based infrastructure.
  • Akamai Technologies
    Engineering Manager
    Akamai Technologies Jul 2009 - Jun 2013
    Cambridge, Ma, Us
    Managed a team of up to 16 software engineering and operations staff. Technical lead of the streaming media content ingestion and prep used by Akamai’s customers. Worked with product and executive teams to define, plan, and prioritize projects.* Co-architected and managed the engineering team for Akamai’s media transcoding and DRM platform which allowed for massive parallelization of transcoding and encryption across commodity servers for individual media jobs allowing for very high throughput and low cost. * Managed a geographically distributed team including an operations team in Bangalore, India.* Designed and managed the development of Akamai’s media management system. The product also integrated with several of Akamai’s internal processes and systems.* Worked with QA and internal tools teams to help define processes and tools to better manage projects.* Transitioned legacy product to end-of-life status and transitioned engineering team to new projects.
  • Veoh Networks
    Director Of Technology
    Veoh Networks Mar 2008 - Jun 2009
    Us
    Led the back end data team of 9 Java, Oracle, MySQL DBE/DBA, and reporting engineers including 4 members of an offshore development team in St. Petersburg, Russia. Worked with product and executive teams to define, plan, and prioritize. • Architected and lead development team in implementing a scalable and robust data collection, parsing, marting, and reporting system utilizing Java, Oracle, Hadoop, and Hive technologies.• Designed and lead development of a behavioral targeting system which analyzes usage patterns to provide targeted advertising with higher CPM rates. Using an offline analysis process, the targeting system was extended to infer the demographic attributes by comparing unknown visitor activity to known registered user data. System utilized Hadoop, HBase, and Memcached.• Designed system to utilize behavior targeting to personalize video recommendations and search results.• Lead development of a recommendations serving system which provided customized results based upon co-occurrence of activities of visitors to the website.• Lead development of a crowd-sourcing feature of the site which allowed our visitors to create better video metadata utilizing Hadoop and Hibernate.• Worked with business and product teams to provide reports and analysis of usage of the website.• Lead teams responsible for search and external video publishing.
  • Yahoo
    Senior Engineering Manager
    Yahoo May 2005 - Mar 2008
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    Managed a team of 15 Java and DB engineers and was responsible for hiring, supervising career planning, and yearly reviews of all direct reports. Tech Lead and developer on three major aspects of Yahoo’s Project Panama that supported $3 billion in annual revenue for 2007 and was Yahoo’s largest and most complex project to date. Worked extensively with executive, product, QA, techops, and other engineering teams to design, plan, integrate, and track the progress of this mission-critical system. All system designs incorporated business continuity planning (BCP) to handle the catastrophic failure of a data center as well as SOX compliance. * Advertiser Analytics – Provided web analytics solution so advertisers could track the effectiveness of their marketing campaigns. Deployed on over 30,000 customer websites.* Advertiser Data Collection/Reporting – Processed event data received from serving, analytics, and external systems into reports. Responsible for data ETL into highly distributed Oracle data warehouses as well as reporting UI and API.* Migration – Developed migration system for existing Search Optimizer customers so they could maintain their web analytics tags and settings.Tech Lead for Yahoo’s Java and Oracle frameworks team. Systems and components developed here are in use today in Yahoo’s next-generation display advertising and publishing system (APT). * Java Frameworks – Designed and developed the core Java libraries used by all the Advertiser and Publisher application teams. * Data Collection and Reporting – Developed flexible and highly scalable data collection, processing, and reporting system. * Oracle Systems – Managed DBE team which build components for reporting ETL workflow, account migration, and replication.* UI Frameworks – Lead team of UED, Java, and front-end engineers to develop the UI toolkits which would be used for advertiser and publishers interface.
  • Yahoo
    Principal Technical Yahoo
    Yahoo Apr 2004 - May 2005
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us
    Responsible for design and development of various components of Yahoo’s Search Optimizer product that tracked and optimized Yahoo’s Search Marketing advertiser's spend.* Responsible for back-end integrations components with Yahoo and Google marketing APIs and feeds.* Developed custom Oracle and Java O/R mapping tool used by dev team.* Developed most of the JSP Tag Libraries and JavaScript tools used in the product.
  • Yahoo
    Senior Technical Yahoo
    Yahoo Mar 2003 - Apr 2004
    Sunnyvale, Ca, Us

Ryan Lynch Education Details

  • Uc San Diego Extended Studies
    Uc San Diego Extended Studies
    C++ Programming And Object Oriented Programming
  • Mesa Community College
    Mesa Community College
    General Studies And Humanities

Frequently Asked Questions about Ryan Lynch

What company does Ryan Lynch work for?

Ryan Lynch works for Centr

What is Ryan Lynch's role at the current company?

Ryan Lynch's current role is Director of Engineering for Data and Infrastructure.

What schools did Ryan Lynch attend?

Ryan Lynch attended Uc San Diego Extended Studies, Mesa Community College.

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