Ryan Arneson
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Executive Director of Client Platform Engineering at CVS
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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Executive Director, Client Platform EngineeringCVS HealthJun 2022 - Current (4 years 2 months)- Director Of Engineering - Web PlatformTargetFeb 2021 - Jun 2022 (1 year 5 months)Leading the Web Platform team as we provide core capabilities for our product teams to build the best experience for Guests on Target.com. This includes making foundational technology choices, building core libraries for logging, metrics, A/B testing, business tracking, performance tracking, unit and integration testing, mocking, static analysis, production and development application servers, server side rendering, monorepo architecture and tooling, and the overall developer experience. Empowering a team of 12 engineers to execute on its roadmap while facing the challenges of supporting a customer base of 100+ engineers. Leading the team with empathy while optimizing for culture fit and autonomy. I feel my team is happiest when they're i
- Principal Engineer - SRE & Developer ProductivityTargetOct 2019 - Feb 2021 (1 year 5 months)I worked across the enterprise, both directly with teams and at company wide speaking events, to advocate for build, test, deploy, and release best practices for teams looking to increase their feature velocity at Target's scale. I set technical direction for the team while helping to organize the backlog and guide sprint planning to ensure we stayed focused on our goals. I researched and spiked out a POC for introducing Automated Canary Analysis to target.com's release sequence with the goal of reducing manual inspection of canary and control metrics by our engineers. I provided guidance for CI/CD and infrastructure for the re-platforming of target.com onto a new tech stack. I was accountable for the stability of target.com through
- Lead Engineer - SRE & Developer ProductivityTargetOct 2016 - Oct 2019 (3 years 1 month)I was responsible for building, scaling, monitoring, and operating the infrastructure, build, test, deploy, and release capabilities of target.com's front end in an organization of 100+ engineers. I wrote delivery pipelines that fully automated releases via a release candidate sequence; certifying quality through extensive functional regression coverage, canary dogfooding, and guest traffic ramp-up. This led to multiple daily releases and a mean time to recover of less than five minutes. I built an application that provides engineers a preview version of their application directly from their pull requests, a critical step in getting target.com to continuous delivery. I presented on this topic at numerous forums across Target and gained s
- Web DeveloperUniversity of MinnesotaApr 2011 - Oct 2016 (5 years 7 months)• Responsible for designing, developing, supporting, and implementing web-‐based applications for the Academic Health Center. • Built web apps using Ruby on Rails 3 & 4, Oracle, MSSQL, ElasticSearch, Backbone JS, and React JS. • Source control was stored in Atlassian Stash and GitHub (private University repos). • Deployed to Ubuntu staging and production environments using Jenkins and Capistrano. • Wrote detailed statements of work and estimates for new development requests.
- Lead Web DeveloperImageTrendMar 2004 - Apr 2011 (7 years 2 months)Worked as a developer for two years and promoted to a lead developer. I held that position for until I left five years later. • Worked on high availability applications for the medical community. • Wrote applications using Adobe ColdFusion and MSSQL. • Trained new team members on web development and source control best practices. • Performed code reviews. • Wrote hooks between our SVN server and code review system to automatically create code reviews as new code was checked in. • Practiced agile development with two weeks sprints and led daily scrums. • Responsible for architecting new modules and detailing out development goals for my team. • Responsible for creating detailed spec documents and statements of work. • Handled a lot of sup
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- Bachelor of Arts (BA, Computer ScienceUniversity of Iowa