Devon Ring

About Devon Ring

Staff Engineer with a track record of driving business-critical technical initiatives across organizational boundaries. Led Braze\'s most complex cross-functional project ($5M+ pipeline), modernized company-wide authorization practices, and architected systems serving global enterprise customers. I operate best at the intersection of deep technical work and strategic alignment - making architectural decisions that ship, scale, and don\'t need to be revisited.I multiply team effectiveness through technical clarity and mentorship - helping engineers navigate ambiguous problems, level up through promotion cycles, and build conviction in their own architectural decisions.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer

   Braze

   Aug 2024 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Engineering Lead - Braze Free Trials (press release)- Led technical vision and execution across 20+ engineers for Braze\'s most organizationally complex initiative. Coordinated cross-division alignment on service boundaries and architected isolated trial environment supporting burstable scale with enterprise security guarantees. Transformed internal-facing team into revenue-generating unit:$2M+ net-new revenue in first 10 weeks,$3M+ pipeline by Q4 2024.Owned Braze\'s engineering authentication security posture as company SME — led SEV1 incident response, architected intrusion detection pipelines reducing mean detection and remediation time from hours to minutes, and hardened enterprise auth (Google SSO, SAML SP/IdP) against evolving threat vectors.Led company-wide authorization modernization — established enterprise-scale patterns and embedded guardrails into CI/CD pipeline, preventing auth vulnerabilities before reaching production.Modernized multi-region authentication stack for global enterprise customers (new Go service), reducing account discovery latency from 1.5-2s P95 to 0.3s.Architected enterprise-grade permission model (permission sets) enabling Custom Roles and granular access control for Braze\'s largest customers.Architected ledgering system (Snowflake-backed) that eliminated disclosed material weaknesses in revenue recognition from Braze\'s S-1 - reduced audit time and established foundation for SOX-compliant financial reportingMentored engineers through promotion cycles (SE2 → Senior, Senior → Senior 2), focusing on technical decision-making and cross-team influence.

Education

• Carleton University

  Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science Honours

  2009 — 2014

Skills

• Cli
• Sass
• Amazon Ec2
• Java
• Ruby
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Angularjs
• Php
• Nodejs
• Leadership
• Elasticsearch
• Css
• Continuous Integration
• Jenkins
• French
• Amazon S3
• C
• Programming
• Git
• Ruby on Rails
• Scalable Web Applications
• Html
• Vagrant
• Software Development
• Python
• Software Engineering
• Bash Scripting
• Docker
• Cassandra
• Go
• React.js
• Agile Methodologies
• Sql
• Apache Zookeeper
• Linux
• Active Directory
• Unix
• C++
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)