Ryan Allred

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Synvox

Synvox

Synvox is the personal website of Ryan Allred, a software engineer in Lehi, Utah who creates products — finding the real problem first, then building the solution. In his spare time he speaks at local meetups.

He is a staff software engineer at Vannevar, where he takes products from the first messy question through shipping and the versions after that. He built Sails.app so an AI assistant has a drive it can build on: files, email, websites, and jobs in a shared workspace.

Before Vannevar he was CTO at LeaderFactor, building leadership training used by Fortune 500 companies — frontend, backend, design, and more at a small company. Earlier he led frontend engineering and mobile engineering at Skipio, a messaging platform for consultants and sales teams, and frontend engineering at Stukent on Mimic Social, a social media marketing simulation for students.

As a college sophomore he built I-Know, a browser extension that aggregated assignments into one checklist; it went viral with students worldwide, including at Yale, Harvard, and BYU. His first big project was Canvas Creator, an animation and game creator with a drag-and-drop interface.

He is available as an advisor and is happy to talk about what he’s built. This site covers his about page, work history, projects, and blog.