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    Ryan McGrath

    Ryan McGrath

    Self-taught developer, designer, and author; consulted with companies across the world, always looking for new and interesting technology.

    Software Engineer Seattle Self Taught
    rymc.io
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    Experience
    RYMC (Consulting, etc)
    RYMC (Consulting, etc)
    Founder, Owner 2004 - Present (about 22 years)
    Covers freelance, consulting, and personal product work I do in-between roles. Previous clients include Plaid, FastMail, the University of Maryland, Technicolor Inc., Vice,... more and more. Feel free to ask for more info.
    Kaala
    Kaala
    CTO 2015 - 2017 (over 2 years)
    Built initial version of a platform for underground music artists in Japan, creating a central source where news and events could be listed for the community.
    Atlas Lane
    Atlas Lane
    Head of Product 2016 - 2017 (about 1 year)
    Helped build out a technology team to scale a new technology-focused take on the Property Management industry.
    Snapcast
    Snapcast
    Founder, CTO/Co-Founder 2013 - 2016 (over 3 years)
    Built out a complex iOS AVFoundation-heavy video editing application, optimized for journalists in various environments (newsrooms, etc).
    Colavi
    Colavi
    Founder, CT/Co-Founder 2013 - 2016 (over 3 years)
    Built out a video production as-a-platform service, enabling smaller companies to submit footage and get it compiled by hand-picked editors complete with subtitles, voiceovers... more and translation for a better price than the industry average.
    Gengo
    Exit
    Gengo
    Senior Engineer/Evangelist 2011 - 2012 (11 months)
    Helped transition an in-flux tech stack, worked on projects for the New York Times, and traveled to conferences and meetups to evangelize Gengo use-cases.
    AngelList
    AngelList
    Venture Hacker 2010 (2 months)
    Helped build out the initial V1; internal tooling, frontend work, and assorted other things that make up a V1.
    Webs
    Exit
    Webs
    Production Supervisor 2007 - 2010 (over 3 years)
    Started as a Production Assistant working on advertising efforts for clients like Ford, Honda and Paramount. Over four years, worked my way up to Production Supervisor, managing... more a team of designers and developers to implement complex projects such as an in-browser WYSIWYG website builder.
    Founder
    Colavi, Snapcast, RYMC (Consulting, etc)
    Employee
    Webs, AngelList, Gengo, Atlas Lane, Kaala
    Investor
     
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    Attorney
     
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    Projects
    Tokeo - Cryptocurrency News Tracker
    Follow cryptocurrency news, sans hype.
    Designer, Developer, Marketer, Swift/Objective-C, Python, Amazon S3 · An app for Apple devices to follow cryptocurrency news without the hype and… · More fervor.

    I built it.
    {Kids: Code}
    A vetted coding newsletter for kids and parents.
    Designer, Developer, Marketing/Writing/etc, HTML5, CSS, Javascript · A vetted coding newsletter for kids and parents that acts as a safe way to explore… · More the wider world of programming without the risk of a child going off-course into the depths of the internet.

    I built it.
    Create professional videos with Colavi
    Colavi is an on-demand video production platform
    Co-Founder/CTO, Objective-C, Javascript, Python · Built the tech stack from the ground-up, iterating over a few different versions of the product.… · More Notable pieces include dedicated iOS clients, a routing platform for crowd-sourcing of video editing related tasks, and an SPA architecture that clients/customers can use to manage it all.

    Shoot the scenes you want and let professional editors turn it into engaging content.
    Toshi Maeda
    With Toshi Maeda
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    - Built and sold/exited a combination iOS/macOS app that utilized a custom framework for keeping the codebase 90% the same across devices (pre-Catalyst!), and found and published new ways to push CloudKit sharing past what was previously documented.

    - Launched and exited a video technology startup in Japan that saw wide use in the journalism community; a personal point of pride.

    - Several successful open source projects with solid followings.

    - Built and launched a distributed computation platform, in the early days of Node.js and web worker technology, in a weekend.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Objective-C Python Javascript CSS HTML MySQL PostgreSQL Ruby User Experience Design Product Development Node.js iPhone Development Android Databases Product Management Perl Adobe Photoshop Adobe Illustrator Writing User Interface Design Technical Writing iOS Development iOS Localization for Japanese Market Backend Development Frontend Development Full Stack Development Mobile Development Software Architecture Web Development Rust​ Swift
    Locations
    New York City Tokyo Singapore
     
    Q&A
    What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

    Habeas Data. Cyrus does an incredible job outlining the history of what a reasonable expectation of privacy in America looks like and illustrates some incredible cases that would be easily overlooked/lost to history.

    Yes, it's not strictly business.

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