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

Monetate | 2021 - 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 | 2018 - 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.

Student Technician

Texas A&M University | 2014 - 2017

Provided comprehensive IT support by troubleshooting hardware and software issues, managing system deployments, and maintaining secure inventory workflows for academic and research environments.

    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.