Ryan Melcher | Lead Software Engineer

I lead a team building web and mobile applications, theming infrastructure, and developer tooling for a growing roster of agencies. Most of my work is about making decisions easier: smoothing workflows and putting guardrails in place so developers can move without waiting on permission.

I do my best work on small teams that collaborate closely and ship often. I care deeply about design and maintainability, and I've become more interested in how tools can help designers, architects, and engineers build better interfaces together.

Location Omaha, NE
Status Open to opportunities

Experience

Pennant Services

Lead Software Engineer

May 2024 – Present

Lead the team behind our web and mobile applications, focused on developer outcomes and maintainability as the software scales across a growing number of agencies.
Built the theming infrastructure that lets one codebase serve every agency with its own branding, so onboarding a new one is configuration rather than a fork.
Own the path to production (CI/CD, containerized services, infrastructure as code) which turned releases from events into routine.
Set the team's workflow conventions and build internal tooling that removes the repetitive parts of the job.

TypeScript
Svelte
Go
Terraform
Docker
Kubernetes
Snowflake
Postgres

American National Bank

Software Engineer

Jun 2022 – May 2024

Built and maintained internal applications using Retool as the primary interface layer, supporting loan servicing, card management, treasury services, fraud monitoring, and other core business units with real-time operational visibility.
Built a centralized SQL data warehouse aggregating data from multiple core banking systems, cutting report generation from days or hours to minutes.
Integrated applications with backend systems built in Node.js, .NET, and SQL, exposing secure, standardized APIs and datasets that non-technical teams could safely extend.

React
TypeScript
Terraform
Retool
AWS

American National Bank

Junior Software Engineer

May 2021 – May 2022

Used data analytics to find pain points within the business, where data itself needed improving across its 900,000+ user files.
Developed APIs that communicated directly to the banking core system.
Created a site to automate the processing and resolution of inconsistencies within user data.

React
TypeScript
SQL
XML

Projects

Agency Insight and Patient Management

Internal · Pennant Services · 2024 – Present

Web and mobile applications that give agencies a shared view of their patients and their operations. One codebase serves a growing roster of agencies, each with its own branding, through theming infrastructure and shared tooling so onboarding a new agency is configuration rather than a fork.

Svelte
TypeScript
Go
Kubernetes
Postgres

Customer Integration Application

Internal · American National Bank · 2021 – 2024

Connected the core banking system to a custom data lake so product settings stayed current daily, and folded Adobe e-signature into the onboarding flow. Staff could then run a customer onboarding request end to end (request, documents, signature, approval) in one place instead of across several systems.

.NET
SQL
Adobe Sign
Data Lake

AWS and Core Banking Migration

Internal · American National Bank · 2023 – 2024

Helped move the bank’s technology core to Q2 and lift every application into AWS. The work retired on-premise dependencies and put the bank’s systems on infrastructure that could actually scale with them, without breaking the integrations the business ran on.

AWS
Q2
Terraform
Docker

Contact

Always happy to talk about good software.