Ryan Taylor

Systems & Automation Engineer

About Me

Ryan Taylor

Hi there!

Thanks for visiting my site! I'm currently supporting an Internal Research and Design (IRAD) initiative at Raytheon designing purpose-built Linux systems.

  • From: Long Beach, CA
  • Lives In: Broomfield, CO
  • Age: 25
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Experience

June - September 2025
Systems Infrastructure Engineer
Raytheon | James-Webb Space Telescope | Aurora, CO
  • Automated multi-environment VMWare VM lifecycle using Terraform
  • Developed idempotent Ansible playbooks for whole-environment configuration
  • Integrated Terraform and Ansible into existing CI/CD pipelines for automated infrastructure updates
  • Worked with Git/GitLab for team collaboration and integration
June 2022 - September 2025
Systems Infrastructure Engineer
Raytheon | GPS OCX 3F | Aurora, CO

Atlassian Suite Administration:

  • Installed/upgraded multiple instances of Jira/Confluence/BitBucket and associated databases
  • Improved/created workflows to add automation and enforce Agile practices

IBM ELM Administration:

  • Installed new instances of IBM ELM 6/7 and associated DB2 databases
  • Managed users' licenses and permissions across DNG, RQM, and GC

Systems Support:

  • Provided support to SA team for groups/users, backups/recovery, and troubleshooting on RHEL systems
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
  • Trained new associates to deliver high quality products and services
  • Significantly increased department sales by 60% leading to consistent exceeding of weekly budget goals
  • Delivered an average 95% customer service rating across an 8 month period

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

What I Do

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Systems Administration

I work directly with many different Linux systems, mainly RHEL systems on OS configuration and management. While I've never served as a dedicated Sysadmin, my roles have demanded a ton of that work.

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Infrastructure Automation

I work with Terraform and Ansible to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management. After dealing directly with systems for so many years, it's been awesome to finally get experience in automation.

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Collaboration & Management

I've installed and maintained a ton of different apps for the teams I've worked on, including the full Atlassian and IBM ELM suites. During my time on GPS OCX 3F my role consisted almost exclusively of administration of these apps.

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Personal Projects

I create lots of little scripts and apps for personal use on my home machines and servers. Check out my GitHub to see all my personal projects and repositories.

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Linux Customization

I love to mess around with new distros, desktop environments, FOSS, etc. My daily machines are running EndeavorOS and Omarchy and I've got a dedicated Proxmox server for all my homelab projects.