Ryan Davila

Software Engineer, New York Metropolitan Area

Experience

Senior Software Engineer

Ethos AI

New York, NY

Jan 2025 - Oct 2025

  • Built filtering system enabling parent-child relationship queries across 20+ data inventory types with persistent views for stakeholder collaboration.
  • Developed threaded comment system for collaboration, reducing review cycle time from days to hours across 10+ workflows.
  • Migrated authentication to Authentik images meeting Capital One security standards, delivered 2 weeks ahead of schedule.
  • Maintained 15+ GitHub Actions workflows and build scripts with 99%+ success rate, upgrading 20+ dependencies monthly while maintaining zero breaking changes.

Software Engineer

A Place for Rover, Inc. (Rover)

Seattle, WA

July 2021 - Oct 2024

  • Designed booking model for Gingr partnership integration, establishing database schema and API requirements for inbox and booking engine to create an abstract paradigm adaptable for future partnerships. Won Team Impact Award for 2023.
  • Directed implementation of Bright Horizons partner vouchers with extensible data models for order handling and financial processing. Led 6 engineers to deliver 30% faster, generating $6MM annual revenue.
  • Developed custom Codespaces resources with comprehensive documentation and environment configurations, adopted by 10+ engineers and saving 20+ hours monthly in development setup time.
  • Upgraded custom metrics framework by migrating legacy task interfaces and management commands to new architecture, improving monitoring for 12+ critical tasks and multiple Datadog dashboards.
  • Major contributor to TypeScript migration, delivered 6 months early. Refactored 2k+ lines of legacy code and deprecated frontend tooling, improving type safety and developer efficiency.

Application Developer

Interactive Brokers

Greenwich, CT

Aug. 2019 - June 2021

  • Built enhanced customer targeting system for SYEP program by integrating collateral loans data, reducing computation time by 5+ hours weekly through optimized data processing pipelines.
  • Optimized stock segregation calculation application by refactoring inefficient code, reducing processing time by 50% and enabling accurate daily asset position reporting across company entities.
  • Developed 10+ RESTful Spring web services with enhanced error handling and infrastructure optimizations, achieving 99.9% availability for external group integrations.

Projects

tutel.rocks

  • Built live stream service for pet turtle monitoring using FastAPI backend, React frontend, and ffmpeg optimization. Deployed on LAN server with Tailscale networking and WorkOS authentication.

NAS + Homelab Enthusiast

  • Self-host 6+ open source applications (Immich, Jellyfin, PiHole, Calibre) with Tailscale VPN and Cloudflare DNS for secure external access.

Technical

Programming

Python, TypeScript, Java, SQL, HTML, CSS, Lua, Bash, Terraform

Frameworks

FastAPI, React, Django, ReactQuery, Spring, Spring Boot

DevOps & Tools

Docker, Datadog, Splunk, Git, AWS, Kubernetes, GitHub Codespaces

Education

Cornell University

B.S. in Information Science, Systems and Technology

Ithaca, NY

Aug 2015 - May 2019