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Ryan Lane
Senior Staff Security Engineer at Lyft
Ryan Lane is a Senior Staff Security Engineer at Lyft with extensive experience in systems architecture, AWS infrastructure, and security.1 He has a strong background in various technical areas including OpenStack clouds, scaling, application security, and infrastructure security.
Professional Background
Ryan pursued a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of New Orleans. Throughout his career, he has held several notable positions:
- Senior Staff Security Engineer at Lyft (2017-2020)2
- Currently working as a Senior Staff Engineer at Stripe12
Expertise and Contributions
Ryan is known for:
- Developing and advocating for secure complex distributed systems
- Working on Lyft's infrastructure, providing security and observability solutions1
- Contributing to open-source projects, such as Confidant, a secret management service developed at Lyft3
Public Speaking and Knowledge Sharing
Ryan has shared his expertise at industry conferences. For instance, he gave a presentation at QCon New York on "Access and Secret Management in Cloud Services," covering concepts and tooling for identity, access management, and secrets handling in cloud environments.4
Technical Writing
Ryan has also contributed to Lyft's engineering blog, writing about topics such as extending IAM policy and AWS APIs using KMS and Lambda.5
Ryan Lane's LinkedIn username is indeed ryandlane, as mentioned in the query.1
