About

Ryan Walega is a Senior Software Engineer at Total Brain with over 15 years of relevant experience. He is passionate about solving problems and has a deep interest in the entire product life cycle. Ryan enjoys learning about what makes a great software product end to end as well as the people that make it happen. He brings a unique mix of his role experiences from development, quality, and product to every person he works with and every line of code he writes. Ryan is interested in both people and technical challenges and thrives in environments that have little structure and big goals. Before joining Total Brain, Ryan worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Collective Health. There, he increased the productivity of a team of 40+ developers while saving the company over $65,000 in engineering time by creating a CLI database migration tool using Python and SQLAlchemy. Ryan also architected backend solutions for a healthcare platform using InterSystems database management to support new client integrations, HRIS integrations, and increase supported insurance coverage categories by 25%. He implemented release processes for 100% of the company's engineering teams following a collaborative leadership approach with cross-team communication and a confluence wiki for a clear, consistent release pattern. Ryan mentored multiple junior engineers and interns using collaboration, interpersonal skills, and empathy to provide constructive feedback, resulting in an exchange of knowledge and experience. Ryan also worked as a Software Development Engineer in Test at Practice Fusion, where he developed a prototype proof of concept automated iOS mobile testing framework utilizing C#, iOS devices, and Appium, projected to save manual QA testing teams over 1000 hours annually. He constructed an automated testing framework using C# and .NET to provide more than 75 smoke tests across 15+ services, resulting in 100% service availability coverage. Ryan re-engineered automated tests with Selenium, C#, and Page Object Model design pattern, enabling reusability of test framework objects for automation testing and optimizing test writing velocity by 50%. He built a command-line tool using Ruby and Jenkins API to provide engineers with automated job creation for new services, eliminating 2 - 3 hours of debugging time per weekly sprint. Ryan documented software defects utilizing JIRA to increase visibility and prioritization of issues affecting the system, minimizing client support requests from 30,000+ physicians. Ryan holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Florida State University and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Michigan Technological University. His tech stack includes Software Engineer, test,