Ryan Cormack

Principal Engineer at Motorway

AWS Community Builder | Serverless & Event-Driven Architecture | Speaker & Writer

About Me

Ryan is a Principal Engineer at Motorway with a unique journey from digital marketing to software engineering. He specialises in serverless and event-driven architectures on AWS, building scalable systems that power one of the UK's fastest-growing automotive marketplaces.

As an AWS Community Builder, he is passionate about sharing knowledge through conference talks, blog posts, and open-source contributions. He has spoken at AWS user groups and events including re:Invent, and contributed to major open-source projects like terraform-provider-aws and aws-lambda-power-tuning.

He co-founded MemoryStoria, an online memoirs platform that raised EU funding, demonstrating entrepreneurial drive alongside deep engineering expertise.

AWS Serverless TypeScript Event-Driven Architecture CDK Terraform Node.js .NET Lambda API Gateway Swift Infrastructure as Code

"Ryan is one of the best engineers I have been working with. He is a combination of knowledge, skills and pragmatism. He is exceptional at keeping things simple and avoid overcomplication."

-- Eugene Pavliy

Experience

Motorway

Principal Engineer

Current

Led the design and delivery of Motorway's first event-driven system, shipping in weeks with a decoupled and isolated architecture
Driving API platform strategy across documentation accuracy, SDK generation, WAF configuration, and authentication patterns
Championing engineering best practices and mentoring teams across the organisation
Working with modern tooling including Smithy, MCP servers, and AI-assisted development

Moonpig

Serverless Engineer

Built and maintained serverless services on AWS, powering the platform for personalised cards and gifts
Optimised Lambda performance using AWS Lambda Power Tuning, achieving measurable cost and latency improvements
Implemented feature flags on AWS to enable safe, incremental rollouts
Contributed to cloud architecture decisions, earning Advanced Architecting on AWS certification

Open Source & Projects

Featured Project

kiro-kantoku

A native macOS desktop app for managing multiple AI coding agents in parallel. Create tasks, assign them to AI agents, and monitor their progress from a single window.