Ryan McDonough
Full-Stack and Platform Engineer
Greater San Luis Obispo Area

Portfolio: https://r2n.io
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rjmcdonough/
GitHub: https://github.com/rhinomcd
Email: Ryan@r2n.io

Summary
Software engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping customer-facing software, internal tools, and cloud-backed services.
Hands-on across TypeScript, React, C#, Azure, Terraform, Kubernetes, and CI/CD, with experience guiding teams of 10+ engineers.

Experience

Summit Funding, Inc.
Applications System Developer
Oct 2024 - Present
- Build Encompass integrations, event-driven services, and Azure deployments for mortgage workflows.
- Build Encompass integrations with TypeScript, C#, Docker, and Developer Connect APIs for ICE Mortgage Technologies workflows.
- Own webhook ingestion and Azure Event Grid pipelines for notifications, email, and async processing.
- Use Terraform, Bitbucket Pipelines, and C4 diagrams to standardize releases and service design.

TransUnion
Lead Full Stack Engineer
Nov 2021 - Sep 2024
- Led a consumer credit application while staying hands-on in frontend delivery, production support, and engineering quality.
- Led teams of 10+ engineers building customer-facing credit reporting experiences.
- Drove testing, static analysis, architecture reviews, and code review practices across distributed teams.
- Shipped redesign work, handled urgent production issues, and updated frontend tooling with React, Next.js, and Vite.

TransUnion
Lead Engineer, CI/CD
May 2021 - Nov 2021
- Led CI/CD tooling for 80+ microservice applications and common Kubernetes-based release paths.
- Built Kubernetes, Helm, and infrastructure automation patterns used across 80+ microservice applications.
- Added automated deployments, regression testing, SonarQube analysis, and security scanning to release workflows.
- Improved Jenkins automation, Teams webhook integrations, and build triggers for day-to-day developer use.

TransUnion
Senior Engineer, ETL
Feb 2018 - May 2021
- Built test and release tooling for enterprise Java services and data pipelines.
- Designed unit testing patterns for enterprise Java applications and automated Ab Initio ETL builds with Jenkins.
- Tested SOAP and REST APIs with JUnit 5 and ReadyAPI and used Splunk, AppDynamics, Grafana, and Spotfire to monitor production issues.
- Built UI regression coverage with SerenityBDD, Cucumber, and Selenium for business-critical systems.

Selected Impact
- Rebuilt Encompass integrations around Developer Connect APIs and containerized TypeScript and C# services in Azure Container Apps.
- Built Azure Event Grid handling for webhook-driven mortgage events and downstream jobs.
- Led redesign work, production support, and frontend tooling updates for a consumer credit application.
- Built CI/CD workflows with Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm, Terraform, SonarQube, and Docker for 80+ services.

Core Technologies
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Vite, C#, Java, Python, Azure Container Apps, Azure Event Grid, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, Jenkins, Docker, SonarQube