Ryan Taylor

About Me

I'm a Platform & Infrastructure Engineer with 3+ years at Raytheon building automated, reproducible systems for large-scale aerospace programs. I specialize in infrastructure as code, CI/CD-integrated environment provisioning, and Linux systems — with a current focus on embedded Linux platform development. I hold an active DoD Secret clearance.

Outside of work I run a homelab, work on a ton of little personal projects, play a lot of Magic the Gathering, and fly first-person-view drones and planes.

Clearance: Active DoD Secret
From: Long Beach, CA
Lives In: Broomfield, CO

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Experience

June 2022 – Present

Systems Infrastructure Engineer

Raytheon Intelligence & Space | Aurora, CO

Internal R&D

September 2025 – Present

Designed and implemented OS-level configuration and build systems for a custom embedded Linux platform, enabling reproducible and version-controlled system images
Built internal automation tooling to standardize and accelerate developer environment setup, reducing manual configuration overhead and onboarding time

James-Webb Space Telescope

June 2025 – September 2025 (budget-driven RIF)

Designed and implemented infrastructure-as-code workflows using Terraform to automate full VM lifecycle management across multiple environments
Developed Ansible-based configuration pipelines enabling consistent, repeatable environment provisioning from a single execution
Integrated infrastructure provisioning and configuration workflows into GitLab CI/CD pipelines, enabling fully automated environment deployment on merge

GPS OCX 3F

June 2022 – September 2025

Administered and maintained large-scale, multi-instance Atlassian environments (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket), including deployments, upgrades, and migrations
Designed and implemented custom Jira workflows to enforce Agile processes and reduce manual tracking overhead
Deployed and managed IBM Engineering Lifecycle Management (ELM) environments (DNG, RQM, GC) with DB2 backends, supporting program-wide requirements and test management
Automated administrative workflows using Python and platform APIs, reducing repetitive operational tasks and improving system efficiency
Performed Linux systems administration (RHEL), including user management, patching, backups, and system troubleshooting in a production environment

November 2019 – April 2022

Print & Marketing Services Supervisor

Staples | Boulder, CO

Managed all operations for a 6-person department averaging $250K/year in revenue
Grew department sales by 60% over 12 months; maintained a 95% customer satisfaction rating

Outside of Work

Magic: The Gathering

I've been playing Magic: The Gathering since 2011, mostly Modern and Legacy, but some Commander too more recently. I play at Total Escape Games and have a reputation for playing Burn in Modern but really anything Red.

FPV Flying

I fly both freestyle drones and fixed-wing planes with First-Person-View video systems. I build all my own aircraft and have been flying fixed-wing since 2015 and drones since 2017. When Colorado weather allows I fly at a ton of local fields or drive up into the mountains for some crazy views.

Homelab

I run a Proxmox server at home hosting a number of game servers for my friends and me, as well as some self-hosted services including Pi-hole and Cloudflare Tunnels. It's my main sandbox for trying out new tools and keeping my skills sharp outside of work.

Linux & Open Source

My daily machines run EndeavorOS and CachyOS. I love digging into dotfiles, trying new distros, and generally spending more time configuring my setup than actually using it.

Projects

WhatAmI.cooking

A full-stack meal planning app built and deployed end-to-end on AWS. Features a React + TypeScript frontend with a 3D card-flip UI, a Python/FastAPI backend, and an event-driven AWS architecture (SNS fan-out → SQS → Lambda) for recipe ingestion, editing, and deletion. Includes OAuth authentication via AWS Cognito, DynamoDB for persistence, a weekly meal planner with drag-and-drop reordering, auto-generated shopping lists, and a URL importer that scrapes and parses recipes from any site. Deployed with CI/CD via GitHub Actions → Elastic Beanstalk.

AWS React Python

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Deckbuilder

I built a full-featured Magic: The Gathering deck builder because the tools I was using never felt quite right. It pulls live card data from Scryfall, suggests cards via EDHREC, surfaces tournament results from EDHTop16 and MTGTop8, and lets you compare decks side-by-side. It's the kind of project where the scope kept growing because I actually use it, and what started as a simple deck list builder turned into a full-blown deck management and analysis platform.

React Vercel Supabase

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VimMail

A keyboard-driven Gmail client built for power users who'd rather never touch their mouse. Inspired by Vim's modal editing, it lets you fly through your inbox with j/k navigation, visual-mode multi-select, and single-key actions for archive, trash, label, and search. Built on top of the Gmail API with full OAuth authentication, real-time optimistic updates, and a virtualized list that handles thousands of emails without breaking a sweat. A companion Flutter mobile app brings the same read-and-organize workflow to your phone.

Next.js Google Auth Flutter

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Calorie Tracker

A web-based mobile-first calorie tracking app with plain-text food logging and AI-powered parsing. Focused on ease of entry and smart features to minimize manual input.

Next.js GPT‑4o mini Supabase