Ryan Peterman is a highly experienced software engineer with a strong background in media infrastructure and optimization. At Instagram, from December 2021 to June 2024, Ryan served as a Staff Software Engineer and achieved significant efficiency gains, including the largest single optimization in the company's history. Ryan played a crucial role in rewriting the video processing pipeline, leading to a 23% reduction in CPU costs and preventing site-wide outages. As a backend tech lead, Ryan halved send latency for media messages and substantially improved memory usage in the video ads pipeline. Prior to Instagram, Ryan interned at Bloomberg L.P. and worked as a Software Engineer I at Amazon Lab126, where notable improvements were made to ETL processes and data pipeline management. Currently, Ryan is involved in AI/ML training infrastructure at Meta, focusing on distributed GPU-based training at scale. Ryan holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA.
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