Ryan Taylor

Systems & Automation Engineer

About Me

Ryan Taylor

I'm a Systems & Automation Engineer with 3+ years at Raytheon building and maintaining infrastructure for large-scale aerospace programs. I specialize in Linux systems, infrastructure automation, and developer tooling.

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.

  • From: Long Beach, CA
  • Lives In: Broomfield, CO
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Experience

September 2025 - Present
Systems Infrastructure Engineer
Raytheon | Internal R&D | Aurora, CO
  • Designing the OS-level configuration and build process for a custom embedded Linux system
  • Built automation tooling to reduce manual setup time and keep dev environments consistent across the team
June - September 2025
Systems Infrastructure Engineer
Raytheon | James-Webb Space Telescope | Aurora, CO
  • Supported development infrastructure for the James Webb Space Telescope program
  • Owned VM lifecycle automation across multiple environments using Terraform, covering provisioning through teardown
  • Wrote Ansible playbooks to handle full-environment configuration repeatably from a single run
  • Wired Terraform and Ansible into the existing GitLab CI pipeline so environment changes deployed automatically on merge
June 2022 - September 2025
Systems Infrastructure Engineer
Raytheon | GPS OCX 3F | Aurora, CO
  • Administrator for the program's full Atlassian stack — Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket — across multiple instances, handling installs, upgrades, and database migrations
  • Built and maintained custom Jira workflows to enforce the program's Agile process and cut down on manual status tracking
  • Stood up and managed IBM ELM 6 and 7 instances (DNG, RQM, GC) with DB2 backends, including user access and license management for the full program team
  • Handled day-to-day RHEL sysadmin work alongside my tool admin duties — user/group management, backups, and troubleshooting for the SA team
November 2019 - April 2022
Print & Marketing Services Supervisor
Staples | Boulder, CO
  • Managed all business for 6 person department grossing an average $250,000 per year
  • Onboarded and trained new hires on equipment, workflows, and customer expectations
  • Grew department sales by 60% over 12 months
  • Maintained a 95% customer satisfaction rating across 8 months

Education

Bachelor's of Computer Science
University of Colorado Boulder
2018 - 2022

Political Science Minor • Relevant Coursework: Network Systems, Linux System Administration, Operating Systems, Database Systems, Data Structures, Software Development Tools, Intro Data Science, Intro Artificial Intelligence

High School Diploma
Long Beach Polytechnic High School
2014 - 2018

PACE Academy • 4.0 GPA

Outside of Work

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Magic: The Gathering

I've been playing Magic: The Gathering since [YEAR].

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FPV Flying

I fly both FPV drones and fixed-wing planes.

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Homelab

I run a Proxmox server at home for self-hosting and experimentation.

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Linux & Open Source

My daily machines run EndeavorOS and CachyOS.

Projects

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Python Linux Bash
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Go Docker
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