Ryan Saul

Software Engineering Manager, Streem (A Frontdoor Company)

11/2019 – present | Portland, OR

• Managing 6 engineers on our Web Platform team, releasing weekly.
  

• Mentoring direct reports and coaching teams to communicate and collaborate through pairing, reviewing, and sharing work to the rest of the organization
  

• Creating new standards in our process with testing, operational excellence, continuous delivery, and observability. (Reduced on-call incidents from about 5per week to less than 1 per week)
  

• Contributing to our deployment pipeline (CI/CD), system infrastructure, security, and test automation. (Identified measures to save over $3000 in infrastructure spending each month)
  

QA Manager, Mirador (A CUNA Mutual Company)

02/2019 – 11/2019 | Portland, OR

• Built the entire Terraform deployment process along with a Selenium testing framework.
  

• Managed our production and testing environments. (Identified numerous unused services in AWS and saved the company more than $6,000 per month in AWS spend)
  

QA Manager, 4-Tell

10/2017 – 02/2019 | Portland, OR

• Established testing, observability and deployment processes from the ground up using AppVeyor for CI, monitoring in Azure, and automated Selenium tests.
  

QA Engineer, Jama Software

02/2011 – 10/2017 | Portland, OR

• Progressed from Support to QA and eventually to a DevOps role.
  

• Worked closely with the DevOps team on production deployments and the CI/CD pipeline.
  

• Delivered a new REST API across all of the features of our product with automated Python tests.
  

• Created automated frontend tests through Selenium.