Ryan Taylor | Systems & Automation Engineer

About Me

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. 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

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
Building 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 (budget-driven RIF)

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

Education

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

Outside of Work

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 recipe suggestion and meal planning platform for indecisive cooks. Hosted on AWS with paid features to come.

AWS React Python

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Deckbuilder

A web-based deck builder for Magic: The Gathering, allowing users to create, save, and share decks. Includes lots of custom features I wanted for my own deckbuilding needs that didn't exist in other tools.

React Vercel Supabase

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VimMail

A Gmail client for web and mobile. Vim-inspired keybindings and a focus on keyboard navigation on desktop, streamlined mobile app for quick inbox management on the go.

Next.js Vercel Google Auth

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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 Vercel Supabase

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