Experience & Skills — Riley Conrardy

I have led teams of up to 7 engineers, driven technical strategy and engineering standards, and partnered with technical and business stakeholders to ship reliable systems. That has included taking a flagship customer-facing product from inception to production, running platforms that process terabytes daily at 99.9% availability, and substantially cutting infrastructure and data-platform costs.

Commit history

d19fe57Senior Software Engineer & Technical Lead

Jan 2024 – Present

SPINS LLC · Chicago, IL (Remote)

Lead technical planning and mentorship for a team of 7 engineers, partnering with technical leads and engineering managers across teams and companies on architecture and integration decisions.
Led development of IAM pipelines and authorization APIs serving as Policy Information Points and Policy Decision Points, centralizing policy data and access decisions.
Led development of an integration API supporting AI-driven analytics, centralizing third-party authentication and data transformations.
Designed a secure OAuth 2.0 token exchange flow for partner sessions without reauthentication, using scoped claims and masked identifiers.
Helped drive company-wide Model Context Protocol adoption and set implementation standards for other engineering teams.
Reduced query execution times by 40% and substantially lowered cloud costs.
Maintained 99.9% availability across systems processing terabytes daily for enterprise clients, delivering 15+ REST, GraphQL, and gRPC APIs.

cc09b19Software Engineer & Technical Lead

Jan 2022 – Dec 2023

SPINS LLC · Chicago, IL

Technical lead from inception for a flagship public-facing API, leading a team of 4 and shaping requirements with clients.
Standardized API security with a GraphQL gateway using Apollo Federation and OAuth 2.0.
Doubled release frequency with reusable CircleCI Orbs standardizing testing, staging, and deployment.
Improved consistency across projects with shared Python and Node.js packages in Google Artifact Registry.
Drove adoption of test-driven development, pair programming, and code review.
Led adoption of Terraform for infrastructure as code.

47f615aSoftware Engineer

Jun 2020 – Dec 2021

SPINS LLC · Chicago, IL

Developed 4 full-stack applications in Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, and Python for data ingestion, processing, storage, and delivery.
Managed 8 CI/CD pipelines across Google Kubernetes Engine, Cloud Run, and Cloud Functions.
Designed event-driven workflows with Google Pub/Sub for scalability and eventual consistency.
Implemented monitoring, alerting, and structured logging that improved incident detection and diagnosis.

d804024Instructor

Jun 2019 – Aug 2019

Juni Learning · San Francisco, CA (Remote)

Designed personalized lesson plans and taught computer science to 10+ students, from introductory through advanced levels.

Side branches

8faf097Affiliate Researcher

Apr 2026 – Present

University of Washington

Develop Python pipelines for radiomic feature extraction and statistical analysis of panoramic dental radiographs, supporting research on imaging biomarkers associated with bone health outcomes in multiple myeloma patients.
Second author on a research poster to be presented at the AAOMR 2026 Annual Meeting.

e8ad2a3Technical Writer

Jul 2022 – Present

Medium · @conrardy

Authored 10+ technical articles on GraphQL pagination, Rust ownership and lifetimes, and other topics, while contributing to the open-source community.