Ryan Moch

Principal Platform Engineer

Operations · DevOps · Development — Portland, Oregon

About

I’m a platform engineer at a healthcare software company, where I focus on automation, deployment, and configuration of datacenter systems, along with the application support that keeps them highly available.

My day-to-day toolkit centers on infrastructure as code and configuration management: Terraform, Packer, Ansible, and a healthy amount of tooling we build in-house.

Before moving into platform work I was a full stack software engineer, specializing in Azure, CI/CD, and frontend/backend development. Earlier still I worked in operations, partnering with engineering teams to run down software bugs from the support queue, automating server and application provisioning, and standing up monitoring across a product suite. Having worked as a developer, an operator, and a support engineer, I approach platform problems with the whole lifecycle in mind.

Away from work I’m usually tinkering: microcontrollers, home servers, 3D printing, and whatever else has made it onto the bench. The common thread is curiosity: new tools get a proof of concept in the homelab long before I need them, and a lot of what I use professionally got its first test run at home. See interests for what I’m into, and experience for the career details.

Skills

Platform & automation

Infrastructure & cloud

Development