Abigail Ranson
Platform Engineer · Cloud Architect
abby@abbyranson.com
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Remote · United States
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abbyranson.com
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linkedin.com/in/abbyranson
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github.com/ranson21
Summary
Platform engineer with 10 years of full-stack and infrastructure work, building the systems engineering teams run on — internal developer platforms, CI/CD, and the policy and observability layer that keeps regulated, multi-tenant production environments shippable. Sysadmin foundation, hands-on at the principal level. Currently focused on agent-ready cloud infrastructure: composable platforms, deploy-time guardrails, and the substrate AI-driven engineering needs to ship safely at scale.
Skills
- Cloud & Infra
- AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm, Linux, multi-tenant architecture
- Platform & Delivery
- Internal developer platforms (IDP), CI/CD (Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions), GitOps, shared pipeline libraries, release engineering
- Languages
- Go, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Bash, SQL
- Application
- React, Angular, Node.js, Spring, Rails, REST/gRPC, Postgres, design systems
- Practices
- Architecture & modernization, observability, policy-as-code, Section 508 / accessibility, federal compliance, technical leadership
Experience
Sky Solutions LLC
Sep 2024 – Present
Sr. Technical Advisor · Oct 2025 – Present (promoted)
Software Engineer · Sep 2024 – Oct 2025
- Promoted to Sr. Technical Advisor inside 13 months for delivery and architectural leadership across a multi-team federal modernization program.
- Led an Angular framework upgrade across three major versions with zero customer-facing downtime, preserving feature parity for a Section 508–regulated user base.
- Designed and shipped a one-command local development environment that eliminated multi-day onboarding and unblocked parallel feature work across teams.
TISTA Science & Technology
Mar 2020 – Sep 2024
Software Engineer · Federal Modernization & Internal Developer Platform · 4.5 years
- On the company CTO team, helped build an internal developer platform — CLI tooling, shared Jenkins pipeline libraries, and an IoT device simulator — that standardized delivery across multiple engineering teams.
- Cut page load time on a 508-compliant federal case-management application by ~4× through state-management redesign, caching, and lazy-loading; shipped 300+ Jest tests as part of a test-framework migration that raised release confidence.
- Implemented automated accessibility testing in CI to enforce Section 508 conformance across releases — a compliance gate the program had previously been carrying manually.
NewWave Telecom & Technologies
Jun 2018 – Mar 2020
Sr. Full Stack Developer · Jun 2019 – Mar 2020 (promoted)
Full Stack Developer · Jun 2018 – Jun 2019
- Led a 5-engineer cross-functional team delivering an enterprise storage solution ahead of schedule; designed a private NPM registry + reusable design-system package that other teams adopted.
- Built a microservice transport utility for Azure Service Bus supporting high-volume, reliable message processing across federated services.
American Society for Engineering Education
Oct 2016 – Jun 2018
Full Stack Developer
- Owned end-to-end delivery of a modernized public-facing site and incremental refactor of a legacy Rails monolith while sustaining production stability.
The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness
Mar 2014 – Oct 2016
System Administrator
- Administered the Homelessness Management Information System for 50+ partner organizations; built reporting automation that cut HUD/congressional report turnaround time and reduced data-analysis effort by ~75%.