ryan delaney he/him
Hi, I'm Ryan Delaney, a software engineer working in infrastructure reliability tooling, with experience
in
technical theatre. I invite you to click around in the game above and explore, and maybe kill some time!
It won't work very well on mobile so I recommend using it on a web browser when you get a chance.
The game is designed as a really simple farming game, currently it doesn't really have much to do. You
can plant crops, water them and wait for them to grow, then harvest them. There's no goal, nothing to
strive for, just farm and harvest. This was spawned out of a silly idea that I wanted to demo - I have
dreams of adding automation and goals and quests, but this was put together in a single evening from
scratch with no libraries so you take what you can get! Credit for the art goes to various artists on
OpenGameArt, see the console for more. The game saves every night into local storage so you should be
able to come back to it.
Use [ to go up in your inventory, ] to go down, the Hoe can
harvest crops and create farmland. Crops need to be watered every day, after 3 days of not watering they
will turn to rot. You can use W A S D to move, or
drag around.
To keep it brief, I'm a software engineer with a masters in Computer Science from the University of St
Andrews. My main interests are in software development, particularly on infrastructure and backend
tooling,
and in technical theatre - and especially in any situations where they intersect.
The best place to find out more about the stuff I do is in the chaotic quagmire that is my GitHub and
GitLab
accounts, or a dig through my LinkedIn profile below. I'm always happy to chat about opportunities and
interesting projects!
HubSpotAug 2023 - Present
Working with the Infrastructure Reliability Monitoring team to support development teams finding insights into their systems, and a strong range of alerting tools to provide timely notification in the event of issues in their deployments.
University of St Andrews Students' AssociationJune 2022 - June 2023
Providing technical services in lighting, sound, av, and rigging to the Students Association to ensure that events can go ahead to a high level of quality.
St Andrews Ents CrewSept 2019 - June 2023
From 2019 to 2020, I acted as the secretary recording minutes for minimum three meetings a
week, working frequently with the sitting Ents Convenor to plan and organise meetings. Took
an active role in requirements gathering with external groups during weekly meetings with
planning groups for events within the Students Association. Managed the email lists for the
group and organised weekly email updates and signups.
From 2020 to 2022, I was the convenor for the committee, acting as a team leader for a team
of student volunteer theatre technicians working with specialised equipment to plan, develop
and execute large scale events. Also involve sitting on the Association Councils for the
Students Association, proposing and reviewing motions to manage the Association
From 2022 to 2023, I stepped back to the deputy head position, assisting the convenor in day
to day operations and taking an active role in event planning and management.
HubspotJun 2022 - Sept 2022
Worked on the infrastructure logging team, assisting a team of engineers working on a data pipeline handling hundreds of terabytes of data per day. During my internship I implemented guardrails on logging activities to preserve data integrity, automating issue creation with other teams and laying the foundations for improved access control and security to support logging of sensitive data. Primarily worked on the backend with Java, with some changes to frontend systems using React with Redux.
University of St Andrews Students' AssociationJul 2021 - Nov 2021
Assisting the Students Association management team in the organisation and execution of Freshers Week 2021 and liaising with student groups to facilitate technical support for events.
The Byre TheatreOct 2019 - Oct 2021
Mermaids: The University of St Andrews Performing Arts FundFeb 2019 - Jun 2020
Managing a student run and managed workshop providing training, resources and experience to student set builders for theatre productions. Tasks involved resource acquisition, budget management, risk assessment production, review and approval and liaising with external companies and university for repairs, maintenance and procedure changes. Introduced 5 new formal procedures and new tool sets for students.
Young GloucestershireJul 2019 - Aug 2019
Worked as part of a 2 person team to supervise 13 young persons across a four week program including residential components, social delivery and education projects. Responsibilities included supervision, lesson organisation and planning, finance management, team motivation, safeguarding responsibilities and team management.
Dixons CarphoneAug 2017 - Aug 2018
Customer service role marketing products directly to consumers on the floor. Working to meet weekly quotas and targets while ensuring high professionalism and representing the Dixons brand. Aimed to ensure customer satisfaction while applying and simplifying technical knowledge to enhance the customer journey.
AnatwineFeb 2017
Work experience with the catalogue management team involving making changes to live production systems handling large volumes of high value transactions per day. Tasked with identifying and fixing errors in the systems and deploying fixes. Rotated through the IT service department as well as catalogue management and sat in on meetings with external brands.