Vice President of Engineering at ZEFR
Redondo Beach, California
ZEFR
Vice President of Engineering
Marina Del Rey, CA
ZEFR
Sr. Director of Technology
May 2018 to July 2019
pokebattler.com
Founder
Los Angeles
ZEFR
Director Of Architecture
December 2016 to March 2018
Venice, CA
eHarmony.com
Software Architect and Sr. Manager of Platform Engineering
July 2012 to November 2016
Santa Monica, CA
eHarmony.com
Principal Software Engineer - Matching
December 2010 to August 2012
Santa Monica, CA
ITG SOLUTIONS
Principal Software Engineer
April 2000 to December 2010
Culver City, CA
Making Youtube ads less annoying for users and more palatable for advertisers through the magic of machine learning and content relevancy. Making Youtube ads less annoying for users and more palatable for advertisers through the magic of machine learning and content relevancy.
What company does Ryan Barker work for?
Ryan Barker works for ZEFR
What is Ryan Barker's role at ZEFR?
Ryan Barker is Vice President of Engineering
What industry does Ryan Barker work in?
Ryan Barker works in the Internet industry.
Who are Ryan Barker's colleagues?
Ryan Barker's colleagues are Eliza Zhang, Tanik Tabassum, Laura Sundberg, Butler Bushyhead, Ken Cieszykowski, Brad Yinger, Taylor Hardesty, Nandlal Yadav, Michael Kulinski, and Emily Speace
💼 Past Experience
From May 2018 to July 2019, Ryan Barker was the lead FE, Back End, and Data and SRE team for the Front End of the company, at ZEFR. Barker led this team from development to production, working on developing the company's only data science-backed, video-level content relevancy solution. In this role, Barker focused the team on creating this product, which focused on the programmatic space. In December 2016, Ryan Barker was also the director of architecture for ZEFR in Venice, CA.From December 2016 to March 2018, Ryan Barker was a director of architecture at ZEFR in Venice, CA. In this role, Barker led the team that created the high performance event based architecture for ZEFR. This architecture was designed with a high performance message bus in mind, and standardized message formats. This also allowed Barker to lead a team of engineers to implement end to end machine learning videoclassification platform. Barker also worked on developing the company's next product, which was focused on the programmatic space. In July 2019, Barker was also the lead software engineer and sr. manager of platform engineering at eHarmony.com in Santa Monica, CA.From December 2010 to August 2012, Ryan Barker was a software engineer at ITG SOLUTIONS in Culver City, CA. In this role, Ryan Barker led the team that increased the reliability of the company's platform engineering team by moving to an internal Hadoop cluster. In addition, Ryan Barker also increased the accuracy of social recommendations by creating a generic scoring library with dynamic code generation.In November 2016, Ryan Barker was again a software engineer at ITG SOLUTIONS in Culver City, CA. In this role, Ryan Barker led the team that implemented a public API and authentication architecture for ZEFR. This architecture was designed to improve the response times on the company's highest traffic pages. Additionally, Barker also designed and led a team of engineers implementing a send time optimized recommendation notification system.In December 2010, Ryan Barker left ITG SOLUTIONS to become the lead software engineer and sr. manager of platform engineering at eHarmony.com. At eHarmony.com, Ryan Barker increased the reliability of the company's platform engineering team, by moving to an internal Hadoop cluster. Additionally, Ryan Barker designed and led a team of engineers implementing a send time optimized recommendation notification system.
🎓 Education
- M.S. in Human Resources Management from University of California, Berkeley in 2002- P.H.D. from UC Berkeley in 2008 Ryan Barker's current education:- B.S in Computer Science from UC San Diego in 1996- M.S. in Human Resources Management from University of California, Berkeley in 2002- P.H.D. from UC Berkeley in 2008
💡 Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Overall, Ryan Barker has completed a wide range of technical positions, both as a result of their experience as a Vice President of Engineering and as a Software Architect and Manager of Platform Engineering. Their experience with Hadoop and machine learning makes them really good at understanding what needs to be done in order to get a system that is high-reliability, fast, and accurate. They also have a lot of experience with customer service, and are extremely good at problem solving.
Introversion (I), Sensing (S), Thinking (T), Perceiving (P)
3 year(s), 10 month(s)
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