Ryan Walsh

“I had the pleasure of hiring and working with Ryan on the Digital Enablement team at FIS.

He is a talented software engineer, an excellent communicator, and a dependable teammate who quickly established himself as a team lead and mentor.

Ryan was initially brought on as a Principal Engineer, but also stepped up to take on additional Product Owner responsibilities, balancing both roles while delivering features and driving process improvements across the team.

Ryan combines strong technical skills and principles with thoughtful communication and collaboration.

His open and constructive feedback helped level up the team, and he was equally eager to give public kudos to colleagues and solicit feedback on his own work.

He raises the bar for those around him through mentoring and by modeling his engineering principles, communication, and thoughtful decision-making daily.

Ryan is a true partner and disciplined problem solver, bringing his full attention to every situation, actively listening, asking clarifying questions, and ensuring alignment before jumping into solutions.

Any team would be lucky to have Ryan, and I’d gladly work with him again in the future.”

Shawn Carrillo

Head of Digital Web Platforms: Senior Director of Engineering, FIS

(LinkedIn recommendation)

“Ryan is talented, dependable, creative, communicative, detail-oriented, structured, rigorous, goal-oriented, thoughtful, and kind.

Ryan improved our team tremendously. (That’s why we recruited him to come work with us again!)

His structured approach, attention to detail, and commitment to high standards were instrumental in refining our workflows.

He’s also quick to seek feedback and is great at collaborating with and mentoring others.

I wish we could find more Ryans. 😀

Because of his improvements to our development processes and culture (including safeguards to minimize bugs), our pace of deploying new features increased, which was very exciting for our company’s leadership team.

I’d love to work with Ryan again!”

Feng Yang

CTO, Rose AI

(LinkedIn recommendation)

“Ryan was an invaluable addition to our engineering team when there was a great deal of ambiguity with our product goals and implementation.

Ambiguity is a common reality in many startups, and Ryan was able to jump straight in, orient himself and start positively contributing on day one.

He quickly became a subject matter expert in multiple areas of the business and codebase.

Notably, he brought a clarity of thought and of communication that highlighted critical points of friction in our customer payments flows and delivered solutions that measurably increased revenue.

He has broad expertise across most aspects of running a business, a keen entrepreneurial mindset and all the technical skills to deliver great products.

At Forte, he was both a leader who could think strategically and communicate effectively and an individual contributor who could deliver to an extremely high standard of quality.

I wholeheartedly recommend working with him.”

Will Justice

Director of Engineering, Forte

(LinkedIn recommendation)

“Ryan is an excellent individual contributor as well as a technical leader and strategic thinker.

He's analytical, thorough, curious, intelligent, hard-working, and an excellent communicator.

He has broad experience in most aspects of building and running a startup, from the growth side to product to the technical implementations.

He quickly and naturally jumps into difficult and unclear assignments and consistently delivers.

I know everything he does will have been properly thought through and will be properly researched, architected, implemented, and documented.

Any team would be lucky to have him as a member and I'd love to work with him again.”

Matt Jeanes

Principal Software Engineer, Forte

(LinkedIn recommendation)

“I’d hire Ryan again in a heartbeat and wish I could hire 100 more of him.”

Justin James

Vice President, ItsOn Inc

(LinkedIn recommendation)

“I would jump at the opportunity to work with Ryan again. I think you would be lucky to have Ryan join your team.” [See full letter of recommendation.]

Sherif Abushadi

Head of Education, NEAR Foundation

(Recommendation letter)

“Ryan is one of the bright young leaders of this generation. Extremely skilled, and sees the big picture as well. Thinks about not only the tech but the entire product as a single unit. Highly recommend Ryan...”

Robert Smith

Director of Engineering, NEAR Foundation

(LinkedIn recommendation)

“Ryan’s entrepreneurial spirit and professional curiosity coupled with his distinctive analytic approach to operational efficiency serve him well both as a leader and collaborator.”

Brian Fitzsimons

Founder & CEO, GridUnity

(LinkedIn recommendation)

“In addition to his deep knowledge of software development, he takes a broad view of his projects within the context of the team’s and company’s goals. Ryan is thoughtful in everything he does and brings constructive suggestions. He’s collaborative and friendly. I’d gladly rehire him.”

Ina Sipser

VP of Engineering, GridUnity

(LinkedIn recommendation)

“Ryan is an outstanding individual, engineer, and product owner. Working with Ryan means deep conversations about the intent behind the product experience and commitment to delivering on that promise. Would love to work with Ryan again!”

Noah Auerhahn

Co-Founder & President, Extrabux

(LinkedIn recommendation)

“Very much enjoyed working with Ryan. He's an intelligent, questioning, capable engineer. He pushes people whilst also being open to feedback. He's flexible enough to handle multiple domains, but logical enough to push to solutions. Would definitely work with Ryan again.” (Update: Recruited and re-hired Ryan in May 2024)

Alexander Campbell

Founder and CEO, Rose AI

(LinkedIn recommendation)