Ryan Small
Principal Engineer | Cloud Infrastructure, Distributed Systems & Platform Engineering | Python, Kubernetes, Terraform, and of course, AI.
- Role
- Principal Engineer at Carbon Direct
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Ryan Small
Infrastructure and platform engineer with 12+ years of experience designing, building, and operating distributed systems at scale. Currently leading infrastructure engineering at Carbon Direct, where I architect cloud-native systems on AWS and GCP, using Terraform, and modern CI/CD practices. Previously spent 6 years at Booking.com scaling infrastructure serving hundreds of millions of users, progressing from DevOps Engineer to Team Lead. Experienced across the full infrastructure lifecycle: cloud platform architecture, container orchestration, CI/CD pipeline design, observability, security and compliance, and ML infrastructure support.Core expertise: distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS/GCP), Kubernetes, Terraform, Python, CI/CD automation, infrastructure as code, monitoring and observability, incident response, and cross-functional technical leadership.
Experience
Principal Engineer
Mar 2026 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
Education
UW Professional & Continuing Education
Certificate, Python Programming
2013 — 2014
Gangnam - University of California Riverside International Education Center
Certificate, Korean Language
2009 — 2010
Penn State University
Certificate, Geographic Information Systems
2010 — 2011
Western Washington University
2006, Cultural Anthropology
2002 — 2006
Skills
- Teaching
- Time Management
- Quality Assurance
- Public Speaking
- Automated Software Testing
- Teamwork
- English
- Software Development
- Python
- Team Management
- Linux
- Spatial Analysis
- Research
- Team Leadership
- Data Management
- Continuous Integration
- Software Deployment
- Bash
- Programming
- Project Management
- Testing
- Distributed Systems
- Customer Service
- Market Research
- Software Quality Management
- Technical Writing
- Release Management
- Embedded Linux
- Strategic Planning
- Devops
- Software Quality Assurance
- Gis
- Jenkins
- Geospatial Data
- Agile Methodologies
- Data Analysis
- Management
- Data Collection
- Cloud Computing
- Curriculum Design
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