Open to software engineering roles

Ryan Dundun.

❯software engineer

I design and ship production software — cloud-native services on AWS, data pipelines, and LLM-powered automation. Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Capital One and a startup CTO; before that, a Division I All-American on the track at Wisconsin.

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~/photos/ryan.jpg

zsh — ryan@dundun

years shipping production software: 7+
startup co-founder: 2×
Solutions Architect – Associate: AWS
All-American & Big Ten champion: D1

01. $ cat about.md

From the track to the terminal.

I'm a software engineer who likes owning problems end to end — architecture, infrastructure-as-code, data pipelines, and the interfaces people actually use. These days I lead a team building AI-powered automation: LLM-driven agents, workflow orchestration, and conversational bots running in production on AWS.

Before that I spent four years as a Senior Software Engineer at Capital One, automating ETL pipelines, deployments, and cloud infrastructure. Along the way I co-founded two startups: Vyflow, a fintech platform where I served as CTO, and FourKube, a machine-learning stock-prediction service.

At the University of Wisconsin–Madison I earned B.S. degrees in Statistics and Economics with a Computer Science minor as a Powers-Knapp Scholar — while competing in Division I track & field for the Badgers. The habits carry over: train with a plan, measure everything, and show up for the team when it counts.

// on the track

NCAA D1 First-Team All-American
2019 Indoor · Distance Medley Relay
Big Ten Champion
Distance Medley Relay
NCAA Nationals Qualifier
Wisconsin Badgers Track & Field
Academic All-Big Ten
Student-athlete academic honor

View my Wisconsin Badgers athlete profile

Ryan Dundun's NCAA Division I First-Team All-American certificate for the 2019 indoor distance medley relay, displayed with Big Ten and NCAA medals, trophies, and rings — First-Team All-American certificate, Big Ten & NCAA hardware

Ryan Dundun holding his 2019 NCAA Division I Indoor Track & Field All-American medal, wearing a Wisconsin letterwinner ring and a Big Ten Champion ring — 2019 NCAA Indoor All-American medal & Big Ten Champion ring

02. $ git log --career

Where I've shipped.

Seven-plus years building production systems — from enterprise cloud at Capital One to leading an AI automation team.

commit a7c3f19 (HEAD → present)
Team Lead, AI & Automation Engineering
SaaS startup · Remote
2023 — Present
- Lead a team of engineers delivering AI-powered automation and agent-based systems, including workflow orchestration and conversational bots.
- Drive technical strategy and execution with stakeholders and product owners, shipping scalable, production-grade solutions in an Agile environment.
- Architected and deployed Python- and n8n-based automation pipelines integrated with LLMs and AI decision logic, running on AWS with strong observability and reliability.
- Python
- n8n
- LLMs
- AI agents
- AWS
- Observability
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Senior Software Engineer
Capital One · Chicago, IL
2019 — 2023
- Automated ETL data pipelines, deployment workflows, and cloud infrastructure for production systems.
- Owned full-stack application development and end-to-end DevOps — CI/CD, monitoring, and reliability — within an Agile team.
- Built and operated cloud-native services on AWS with Python, Docker, and infrastructure-as-code to deliver scalable, maintainable applications.
- Python
- AWS
- Docker
- Infrastructure as code
- CI/CD
- ETL
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CTO & Co-Founder
Vyflow · Beloit, WI
2019
- Designed and led the end-to-end architecture of Vyflow's core platform: secure, real-time view-only bank access, investor data rooms, and portfolio management.
- Took the product from early prototype to production for an incubated startup that raised a pre-seed round from gener8tor.
- Built a cloud-native stack on AWS — Python (Django) services, a React frontend, and Plaid integrations for secure financial data access — with a focus on reliability, security, and scalability.
- Django
- React
- Plaid
- AWS
- Security

03. $ ls ~/projects

Things I've built.

Side projects and startups I've taken from idea to production — models, infrastructure, and UI.

2020

Recycle Rewards

Non-profit web app

A non-profit website that uses image classification to give people points for recycling — redeemable for coupons from local partners.

Python
Django
AWS Rekognition
S3
Elastic Beanstalk

Watch the demo

2018 — 2020

FourKube

Co-founder

A fully automated machine-learning platform that generated and tracked stock predictions from web-scraped data, served through serverless APIs and a React site.

82monthly paying subscribers at peak

Python
scikit-learn
Web scraping
AWS Lambda
API Gateway
React
Stripe

More in the archive

Older experiments and side projects live on GitHub and on my previous portfolio.

github.com/ryandundun ryan-d.me

04. $ cat stack.json

Tools of the trade.

The languages, platforms, and tools I reach for to take an idea to production — and keep it running.

Amazon Web Services

stack.cloud.aws

[19]

Lambda
EC2
S3
SNS
SQS
RDS
ECS
Elastic Beanstalk
Elastic Load Balancing
SES
Rekognition
Route 53
Comprehend
API Gateway
CloudWatch
EventBridge
Step Functions
Athena
Glue

Languages & data

stack.languages

[4]

Python
JavaScript
SQL
PostgreSQL

AI & automation

stack.ai

[8]

LLM / OpenAI integrations
AI agents
n8n
scikit-learn
Selenium
Beautiful Soup
Web scraping
Cursor

Frameworks & APIs

stack.web

[3]

Django
React
REST APIs

DevOps

stack.devops

[5]

Docker
Terraform
Jenkins
CI/CD
Git & GitHub

05. $ ls ~/credentials

Certification & education.

AWS Certified

Solutions Architect – Associate

Amazon Web Services · SAA-C02 · Issued May 2020

validation_id=VM2H0NMCEN441FCP

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Education

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Graduated May 2019

B.S. Statistics
B.S. Economics
Minor in Computer Science

Powers-Knapp Scholar
Academic All-Big Ten
D1 Track & Field

06. $ ping ryan

Let's build something.

Whether it's a role, a project, or a conversation about cloud architecture and AI automation — my inbox is open.

Say hello