Ryan Seipp

Hello, I'm Ryan Seipp

I'm a full-stack senior software engineer with years of experience building scalable APIs and web apps. I'm excited about efficient software and reliable systems. Outside of tech, I enjoy walks with my dog, Formula 1, and golfing on warm weekends.

Outside of work, my interests have lead me to investigate and experiment with network technologies and declarative systems. I tinker on a homelab running NixOS and Kubernetes, or work on building atop of Linux's io_uring for more efficient web frameworks and applications.

Technologies

Experience

Truefit

Truefit

 6 years, 11 months

  • Lead Platform Engineer

    Mar 2025 - Present ꞏ 1 month
    • Leading development of internal developer environments, building in security, operational, and performance best practices.

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Feb 2024 – Mar 2025 ꞏ 1 year, 1 month
    • Took Kubernetes cluster from idea to deployment in under two weeks, supporting several environments and capable of processing hundreds of financial reports per minute.
    • Optimized time to produce financial reports by 50%, allowing further feature development and saving thousands in compute costs per month.
    • Deployed GitOps and security best-practices with ArgoCD, Kyverno, Cosign, External Secrets, and Cilium.
    • Implemented observability with OpenTelemetry traces, metrics, and logs.
    • Determined process for automated testing of complex distributed system.

  • Software Engineer

    Sep 2020 – Feb 2024 ꞏ 3 years, 5 months
    • Developed event-driven distributed systems to control physical hardware in hostile environments using .NET Core and React.
    • Increased throughput of async Rust image recognition service by 300%.
    • Implemented authentication and authorization for multi-tenant SaaS.
    • Trusted as the "go-to" person for troubleshooting Docker and networking.

  • Jr. Software Engineer

    Jun 2018 – Sep 2020 ꞏ 2 years, 3 months
    • Satisfied clients, resulting in the largest proportion of repeat contracts

  • Software Development Intern

    May – Jun 2018 ꞏ 1 month
    • Demonstrated ability to learn and operate in fast-paced, agile environment