Ryan Allred

I'm at Vannevar now. Same job as everywhere else: find the real problem, then go build it, usually with a small team.

I take products from the first messy question through shipping, and then through the versions after that.

I was CTO at LeaderFactor for a little over three years, and a senior engineer there for a year before that. We built a leadership training platform that Fortune 500 companies use every day.

The app is TypeScript, React Router, Postgres, and Tailwind. I added RAG and chat so people could actually talk to the material. Surveys had to stay fast with more than 12,000 people in them at once.

Four years of SOC 2 Type 2, no exceptions. I did accessibility audits and the fixes that followed, and I mentored a small engineering team.

Contract at Built Brands, the protein bar company behind Built.com. They had a NetSuite cutover that didn't take, and the store was down.

I rebuilt it on Shopify and got it back up. The work was the storefront, checkout, and the UI so the site actually matched how they sell.

I led frontend engineering and mobile engineering at Skipio, a conversational texting product for real estate, fitness, and retail. Web, iOS, and Android.

The work was the messaging UI, drip campaigns, Zapier into CRMs, and keeping render and cache latency down so the apps stayed quick. Semantic HTML and ARIA where it mattered.

I started at Stukent on Mimic Social, a social media marketing simulation. Students ran campaigns for a fictional store: strategy, analytics, influencer work. I built the core of that, including the algorithms that made the sim go.

Then I led frontend engineering on Edify, their LMS. Courseware, live analytics, assessments. Cloud-based, used by a lot of students and teachers at once.

I spent a couple months mentoring students in the web development courses, then built internal apps on campus.

Sole developer at thinkBox, a Chilean startup. The product was an app for business students to build business model canvases.

I built it, hosted it, and kept it running. The team used it for hosting and mentorship around those canvases.

I taught computer science to elementary students in Aurora. Lua on iPads, using Codea. Short lessons, then they made something.

Freelance JavaScript. Remote clients, small web apps, whatever they needed shipped. I cared about the code being something they could keep.

I built a CRM, put it on the Envato marketplace, and did the support myself. Design, code, sales, the inbox. PHP.

Front desk in Centennial: sales, the phones, training people. At 17 I also contracted a racquetball reservation system for them.

It ran until 2020, when they replaced it.