Ryan Haytree
Senior lead engineer, cloud infrastructure
I design how systems fit together, and build the tooling teams use to ship and run them securely.
About
I'm a senior lead engineer at Scorchsoft, a software agency, where I build low-latency, low-downtime cloud systems and lead the developers who work on them. Much of my role is now infrastructure: designing and running these systems on AWS and Azure, defined in Terraform and built on cloud-native services. I also plan projects at the detailed level: how the parts of a system fit together, and how data passes between them.
Agency work brings a wide range of problems. The part I enjoy most is designing complex, multi-service systems that join together into one reliable, high-quality product.
I started out lecturing in computing, teaching cyber security, web development and cloud deployment. That still shapes how I work: I care about systems that can be explained, documented and handed on, not just systems that run.
- Based
- United Kingdom (GMT/BST)
- Talk about
- Cloud infrastructure, system design, teaching computing
Areas of practice
- 01
Architecture and cloud planning
Deciding how systems fit together before any are built, and what runs where in the cloud: their boundaries, the contracts between them, and which data each one owns.
- 02
Data handling
Planning how systems use and generate large amounts of data to support or improve business-critical processes, including bringing AI into them.
- 03
Infrastructure as code and platform tooling
Environments described in Terraform, and shared pipelines, so teams build, test and ship the same way every time.
- 04
Security and review
Auditing infrastructure layer by layer and reviewing code before it merges, so weaknesses are caught early and fixes stay fixed.
Experience
to present
Senior Lead Engineer, Scorchsoft Ltd
to
Lead Developer, Scorchsoft Ltd
to
Mid-Level Software Developer, Scorchsoft Ltd
to
Junior Software Developer, Scorchsoft Ltd
to
Lecturer in Computing, Walsall College
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