Ryan Allred’s work — Vannevar, LeaderFactor, Skipio, Stukent, and earlier roles building products with small teams.
I'm at Vannevar now. Same job as everywhere else: find the real problem, then go build it, usually with a small team.
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.
I led frontend engineering and mobile engineering at Skipio, a conversational texting product for real estate, fitness, and retail. Web, iOS, and Android.
While I was still at Skipio, I also took a contract at Built Brands, their sister company:
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.
I started at Stukent on Mimic Social, a social media marketing simulation. Students ran campaigns for a fictional store. I built the core of that, then led frontend engineering on Edify, their LMS.
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. An app for business students to build business model canvases. It started as an Upwork contract and ended when I left on a mission.
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 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.