Ryan Hults

Senior Software Engineer

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With 7+ years of backend development experience and a passion for full-stack applications and DevOps, I specialize in building efficient, scalable systems. My work spans from greenfield architecting, to performance tuning, to infrastructure automation and beyond. I’m always focused on clean, maintainable code that delivers measurable impact. From defense systems to SaaS platforms, I thrive on solving complex technical challenges across the stack.


Work Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Belva | September 2025 - Current

Led complex technical initiatives including a major async views refactor and critical debugging sessions that unblocked the team, demonstrating strong problem-solving skills and willingness to tackle high-impact challenges

  • Established reputation as trusted code reviewer within first months of joining team, consistently sought out by peers for in-depth technical feedback that examines logic, edge cases, architectural concerns, and potential failure modes beyond surface-level style checks
  • Accelerated team productivity by integrating AI coding assistants into the SDLC and establishing foundational best practices that reduced technical debt and improved requirements alignment.

Senior Software Engineer

Monetate | July 2021 - July 2025

As a technical leader, I drove large-scale infrastructure improvements and cost-efficient optimizations while fostering cross-team collaboration to enhance system reliability and operational processes. My work involved modernizing legacy systems, mentoring engineers, and implementing best practices to elevate both technical output and organizational efficiency.

  • Led the planning and implementation of a major refactor of our AI product offering, reducing compute costs by over 20% and increasing client revenue per session by 30%. Managed team agile processes throughout the project.
  • Led the planning and execution of migrating critical components of the company’s codebase from Python 2 to Python 3, ensuring compatibility and minimal disruption.
  • Led cross-team initiatives to streamline and document critical processes, enhancing operational efficiency and knowledge sharing
  • Guided junior engineers through Python best practices and system design, improving team code quality and output.

Software Engineer

L3Harris Link Simulation & Training | June 2018 - July 2021

In this role, I contributed to the development and optimization of high-fidelity real-time flight simulators, focusing on system reliability, performance tuning, and direct customer support. My work involved enhancing back-end infrastructure, resolving critical defects, and implementing distributed simulation architectures to ensure robust and efficient training systems.

  • Design, development and debugging of high-fidelity real-time F-18 simulator.
  • Provided on-site support and de-bugging while interacting directly with customers.
  • Improved back-end infrastructure to reduce complexity and coldstart times by 15%.
  • Worked on HLA, middleware logic, and MAK Logger interface
  • Design and maintain a High-Level Architecture (HLA) Federate.
  • Fixed mission-critical bugs, including memory mismanagement issues and segmentation faults.

Projects

Personal Cloud Media Delivery Service

Ansible, Docker, Python, S3

A cloud-based collection of containerized services that enable management and playback of personal media over the web, leveraging S3 object storage as a scalable, cost-efficient storage solution

Realtime Content Rendering Service

Python, Amazon ECS, Puppeteer

Created a scalable containerized microservice that dynamically generated client-configurable web content on-demand.

Zoom-to-Cloud Recording Backup

JSON, Python

Python Application that downloads and organizes all cloud recordings from your Zoom Business account, with optional ability to upload the recordings to SharePoint. Uses Zoom Developer API and Microsoft GraphQL.

Internet of Cows

C, Node.JS, PHP, Python, SQL

An Internet of Things wireless monitoring prototype for livestock.