Ryan Phelps
About Ryan Phelps
Ryan Phelps is a Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Apex Clearing Corporation, where he oversees a team of engineers and focuses on building Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. He has extensive programming skills and a strong background in software engineering, with experience at multiple companies over two decades.
Work at Apex Clearing Corporation
Ryan Phelps has served as the Site Reliability Engineering Manager at Apex Clearing Corporation since 2020. In this role, he manages a team of seven engineers dedicated to developing and maintaining Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. His responsibilities include ensuring high-quality code and optimizing performance, particularly through techniques such as improving SQL JOIN statements. Phelps utilizes a range of technologies in his current position, including MongoDB, ElasticSearch, RabbitMQ, Ansible, Salt, Nginx, Terraform, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Previous Experience in Software Engineering
Prior to his current role, Ryan Phelps held several positions in software engineering. He worked as a Senior Software Engineer at Apex Clearing Corporation from 2019 to 2020. Before that, he spent four years at Atheer as a Senior Software Engineer from 2015 to 2019. His earlier experience includes a role at OnTheGo Platforms, where he was also a Senior Software Engineer from 2014 to 2015, and five years at Eleven Wireless Inc. as a Senior Software Engineer from 2009 to 2014. His career began at JoeScan, Inc. as an Engineer from 2002 to 2009, and he also worked at TriGeo Network Security as a Software Engineer from 2001 to 2002.
Education and Expertise
Ryan Phelps holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, both from Washington State University. He completed his MS from 2000 to 2003 and his BS from 1997 to 2000. His educational background provides a strong foundation for his expertise in both front-end and back-end programming. Phelps is proficient in multiple programming languages, including C/C++, C#, Java, SQL, Python, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Technical Skills and Projects
Ryan Phelps possesses a diverse skill set in software development and engineering. He has a strong understanding of performance optimization and code quality. His technical skills include maintaining durable storage applications and a unique approach to user interface design that emphasizes user testing. Phelps has also developed a Rust project named 'grist,' which is available on GitHub, showcasing his commitment to open-source contributions and software development.