ryan@ryanhartje.com:~# man Ryan\ Hartje
RYANHARTJE(1)
SYNOPSIS
Ryan Hartje [--leadership] [--devops] [--architecture] [--ai] [--kubernetes] [--golang] [--python]
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DESCRIPTION
Tenstorrent | Tesla | Equinix | Microsoft | WPEngine | BankRate | HostgatorSoftware Engineer with 15+ years of experience across AI, Datacenter automation, Cloud services, and Hosting.
Ryan has led teams and projects, coaching and mentoring engineers to deliver reliable, scalable results.
Having built three clouds and operated Kubernetes in production for over a decade, he focuses on resilient,
observable, and maintainable microservice architectures. His work emphasizes network segmentation resilience
and caching strategies including Redis, Docker pull-through caches, and artifact/package repositories.
He has developed production-grade services in Go and Python, maintained front-end systems in TypeScript,
and authored API middleware and gRPC services derived from OpenAPI specifications. Performance optimization
and feedback loops were established using fio, k6, and continuous benchmarking.
He has guided teams in establishing observability and telemetry standards using OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and
distributed tracing to provide deep visibility into system performance and reliability.
Ryan advocates for engineering from first principles and believes strong test automation is key to
safe, sustainable release velocity.
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Built the provisioning system that enabled the bring up of Tesla's Cortex AI Supercomputer at 1000+ servers an hour
- Developed and maintained automation that helped AKS scale past 1 million cores
- Designed, developed, and grew WPEngine's Enterprise offering from 0 past $1MM MRR
PROJECTS
Cards Against Kubernetes | A party game for kubernetes nerds
KubeClicker | Idle game with Kubernetes themes
KPong | A chaos engineering twist on the classic Pong. Connect your kubernetes cluster. Lose your round, lose your pod
Cerulean | A mock Azure client for testing against the Azure API
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