Ryan Malkin

EXPERIENCE

SRE

May 2021 - September 2025

Wireless Car

Detroit, MI

  • Resolved system and data concerns from automotive clients and their customers, tracking network and system state issues through complex asynchronous systems while maintaining communication throughout the incident lifecycle.
  • Corrected customer vehicle telematics issues using internal software, database and system-level scripts, and APIs.
  • Was on-call as the sole US-based representative on an SRE team distributed worldwide to handle critical incident triage, investigation, and communication with necessary DevOps and management teams.
  • Led critical incident Root Cause Analyses (RCAs) involving development, specialist, and management team representatives to examine system and company processes and to design and enact improvements.
  • Collaborated to implement a system driving critical incident communication and lifecycle, developing, documenting, and presenting the best practices for all company product teams.
  • Designed modifications to company processes for critical incidents and their associated RCAs, carrying the proposals through the testing, documentation, and implementation phases and presenting changes to the multitude of teams impacted.
  • Led an initiative to restructure the extensive team internal wiki, removing old documentation and creating a clear and logical page hierarchy that could be reliably traversed and referenced in high-stress situations.
  • Developed infrastructure and application monitoring and alerting practices and associated runbooks alongside DevOps teams to improve observability, failure response time, and time to recovery.
  • Developed monitoring and alerting best practices and runbooks alongside Devops teams, improving observability, failure response time, and time to recover.

Software Engineer II (CSE)

November 2019 - February 2021

Clinc

Ann Arbor, MI

  • Proposed, designed, and implemented initiatives for client environment sanitation and internal mirrors of client environments for testing purposes so that deployments occurred in less time and with higher confidence of success.
  • Prepared and installed on-prem deployments of an AI fintech application, working directly with clients and managing internal and external stakeholder concerns.
  • Supported all client environment levels, debugging live issues in network infrastructure, containerization, back-end modules like Elasticsearch, and application features remotely or on-site with clients as needed.
  • Developed deployment and infrastructure features and services as client and company needs dictated.
  • Interviewed, mentored, and closely collaborated with coworkers locally and across the globe.

DevOps / Software Developer

November 2017 - November 2019

Nexient

Ann Arbor, MI

  • Wrote scripts in PowerShell, Bash, CMD, and SQL for team members to efficiently complete daily and intermittent tasks.
  • Solved codebase issues in C++, C#, AngularJS, SQL, and scripts, presenting problems and solutions to a change advisory board.
  • Handled concurrent production environment issues and tickets, ensuring business as usual and meeting SLAs and deadlines.
  • Modified and improved infrastructure-as-code using CloudFormation and SaltStack supporting an AWS cloud environment.
  • Managed complex cloud environments in both AWS and Azure.

Technological Consultant

May 2013 - December 2017

Better Made Snack Foods

Detroit, MI

  • Streamlined existing warehouse processes and added new functionality for inventory tracking using QuikTrac front-end software interfacing with Microsoft SQL Server as a back-end.
  • Troubleshot and resolved issues in existing SQL statements and stored procedures and added logs for future error tracking.
  • Simplified an inventory system by 40% by rewriting the entire codebase to prepare for a full underlying system migration.

Ryan Malkin, LLC

Ann Arbor, MI

  • Advised a medical communications company on the abilities and limitations of a prototype application.
  • Compiled and munged data for using Python, PHP, and Facebook's Graph API.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science

Eastern Michigan University

Mathematics minor, Statistics concentration • Healthcare informatics certificate

Ypsilanti, MI • 2016

SKILLS