About

Ryan To is a driven and passionate Full Stack Software Engineer with a proven track record of leading and executing high-impact technology projects. With over 4 years of relevant experience, he has become an energetic developer with strong communication and organizational skills, who embraces new technologies. Ryan is able to synthesize information to solve problems and has an excellent work ethic. Ryan's skill sets include React, PHP, SQL, HTML/CSS, C++, Java, Object Oriented Design, Algorithms, Relational Database, Docker, Kubernetes, Buildkite, and Jenkins. Currently, Ryan works as a Software Engineer II at Wayfair, where he is the lead for the team's GraphQL microservice. This service serves approximately 3000 requests per minute with a p99 latency of around 30ms in all data centers and languages. Ryan was also responsible for the first decoupled service to integrate with Apollo Federation at Wayfair, improving the codebase to be more decoupled and scalable. The service was built with Java Spring Boot with Buildkite CI/CD and automated alerting on Datadog, Kibana, and Apollo Studio. Ryan oversaw the whole development from planning, architecture, logging, deployment, A/B testing to monitoring. Ryan's responsibilities also include being the lead for the team's Kafka consumer microservice, which processes every keyword search at Wayfair, approximately 2400 requests per minute. The service was built with Java Spring Boot, Aerospike, Docker, and k8s with monitoring/logging on Grafana and Kafka Manager. Prior to joining Wayfair, Ryan worked as a Software Engineer at Wayfair, where he was responsible for Computer Vision. He also worked as a Group Technology Summer Analyst at UBS, where he implemented a custom collapse tree view on Splunk with the open-source d3 graphing library and Splunk framework to show report dependency and urgency in real-time. Ryan holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science/Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where he graduated in 2019. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, Java, SQL, Docker, Kafka, Spring Boot, Spring, Microservices, CI/CD, test, Kubernetes, PHP, Jenkins, Search, and Computer Vision.