Ryan Asbert
Platform + Full Stack Engineer
Full-stack engineer with 15+ years of experience building production web applications. Currently responsible for platform and reliability engineering at the University of Washington, covering Kubernetes, identity management, observability, and CI/CD, while continuing to deliver full-stack applications.
Experience
Platform + Full Stack Engineer
Feb 2023 – Present
University of Washington (ASA-IS) · Seattle, WA
Own and operate the team's Kubernetes cluster infrastructure, serving as the platform foundation for university web applications and internal tools.
Rebuilt the authentication stack on Keycloak; leading infrastructure-as-code and secrets-management modernization (Terraform/OpenTofu, Vault/OpenBao).
Built and maintain the observability stack (Grafana, Loki, Prometheus) providing infrastructure-wide monitoring, logging, and alerting.
Administer GitLab and built ArgoCD GitOps pipelines to automate and standardize deployments across the team.
Automated server configuration, patching, and provisioning with Ansible across a mixed Linux/Windows fleet.
Designed and built DubCRUD, a reusable Nuxt/Prisma CRUD boilerplate adopted to standardize small-app development across the team; built the WorkStudy Jobs Board and Change of Grade app on it.
Founder & Principal Engineer
Jan 2009 – Present
Raziel Studios · Seattle, WA (formerly independent freelance)
Design, build, and host custom client websites and applications — including Kryer Aero and the REPS streaming archive — on self-managed Kubernetes infrastructure.
Delivered projects across PHP (WordPress, Drupal, CodeIgniter), Node (Express, Meteor), and Nuxt stacks, plus IoT builds like a custom Arduino IR control panel.
Building RazBot, a chat-first AI coding agent (Nuxt/Python, CLI + installable Nuxt module) letting clients request site updates in natural language, with human-reviewed git approval gating all code changes before deployment.
Lead Full-Stack Developer
Jul 2017 – Aug 2021
League Lab · Seattle, WA
Built and ran a multi-tenant PHP/MySQL SaaS platform powering 100+ co-ed sports league websites, including a custom wallet/payments system.
Designed and shipped new client sites from scratch on a custom in-house PHP framework.
Managed hosting and infrastructure entirely on AWS (EC2, RDS, ALB, Route 53, DynamoDB, S3, VPC, IAM, ElastiCache).
UX / Front-End Developer
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
The Seattle Times / Avanade, Inc. / POP Agency
Built a custom WordPress theme powering six Seattle Times microsites, including Seattle Restaurant Week and Fund for the Needy.
Delivered enterprise projects for Starbucks, Microsoft, and Procter & Gamble at Avanade, including the Starbucks Partner Portal on SharePoint 2013 with a custom RESTful backend.
Delivered the New York City Ballet website on Kentico (ASP.NET) with Tessitura ticketing integration.