Ryan Cutter

Engineering leader & full-stack software engineer — distributed systems, search, data platforms & applied AI

Ryan Cutter headshot

I build and lead teams that build enterprise-grade backend systems — services, search infrastructure, and data platforms that need to hold up at scale.

Ryan Cutter aboard ship during a Navy deployment, wearing a flight jacket

I also spent eight years in the U.S. Navy as a Naval Flight Officer, flying in the E-2C Hawkeye. I live in San Diego and golf when I can.

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Things That Rule

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Experience

2019 — Present

ServiceNow

Senior Software Engineering Manager, Data Platform

Lead engineering teams building and operating platform-level data infrastructure, with a focus on persistence. Previously led teams building the Generative AI Controller and Virtual Agent Server products.

2020 — 2021

Manager, Platform Development

2019 — 2020

Staff Software Engineer

2016 — 2019

Zuora

Senior Software Engineer, Core Platform Services
  • Designed and built Java microservices as part of the core platform team.
  • Worked across the API Gateway and API Proxy layers, using NGINX and Kong.
2011 — 2016

Semantic Research, Inc.

Senior Software Engineer
  • Led the server-side effort for the company's sensors web application.
  • Contributed to an enterprise analytics product as part of the broader product team.
2003 — 2011

United States Navy

Lieutenant / Naval Flight Officer
  • Served as E-2C Hawkeye Mission Commander across two deployments, directing tactical air operations in airborne battlefield command and control while leading a 25-person maintenance team.
  • As Ship Modernization Installation Manager at PEO C4I, supervised a team of analysts coordinating system installations across surface combatants and amphibious ships.
ValueClick, Inc. — Software Engineer · Westlake Village, CA · 2001–2003
Continuous Computing Corporation — Software Engineer · San Diego, CA · 2001
Bitlocker, Inc. — Software Engineer · Palo Alto, CA · 2000–2001
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Technologies

Languages
Java, Python, Jython, C/C++
Search & Data
Lucene, Solr / SolrCloud, Elasticsearch, Hadoop / HDFS
Databases
PostgreSQL, MySQL, HBase, CouchDB
Platform
Spring / Spring Boot, NGINX, Kong, AWS
Systems
Ubuntu / Debian GNU/Linux, Android
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Education

University of Colorado, Boulder
M.E., Computer Science — Be Boulder Anywhere program
2016
Virginia Tech
B.S., Computer Science
1999