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Ryan A. Koval

Software Engineering, Architecture & Management

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Apr 2022 – present

End to End Productions, Founder / CEO

  • Ryan founded the consultancy to specialize in world-class software engineering, architecture, product, and management services.
  • Successfully delivered solutions for clients including Slammin' Backgammon, Jam Chat, and The Styled by Collective.
Jan 2025 – Jun 2025

The Styled by Collective, Co-Founder / CTO

  • Ryan led all engineering and product efforts to design, architect, and implement an ERP/CRM system for blind inventory management of fashion apparel, catering to private client luxury styling services employed internally and by major retailers.
  • The platform managed over $2.8M in yearly client spend and maintained a consistent 30% keep rate for high-value luxury goods, often exceeding $20k per item.
Aug 2021 – Jan 2025

Roblox, Engineering Manager

  • Working primarily within the Guilded team after its acquisition, Ryan directly managed 6+ engineers by facilitating the RoGRO corporate review process and by providing radical candor to bolster the performance of his direct reports.
  • He served as technical lead on 7+ cross-functional initiatives involving 40+ collaborators across engineering, design, trust & safety, and community teams.
  • High-impact projects include: a full editor rewrite; the Roblox universal rich text initiative; public-facing bot REST API; scalable big data science ETLs; CI/CD optimization and developer experience enhancements; Roblox↔Guilded OAuth integration; a ChatGPT-powered multiplayer AI chat bot
Nov 2018 – Aug 2021

Guilded, Software Engineer

  • Ryan was a core member of the original engineering team of the Discord competitor that secured a $7M Series A funding in April 2020 and ultimately the $90M acquisition by Roblox in August 2021.
  • He spearheaded recruitment and management helping grow the engineering team from 7 to 21+ people with less than 15% turnover over two years.
  • He employed growth engineering to elevate the product from nearly 0 to 110k+ DAU/0.9M+ MAU over 3 years
  • He directed many product and engineering initiatives from end-to-end, including gathering user requirements, collaborating with the UX design team, and shipping code to production
  • He touched effectively everything: web, desktop, mobile, backend, devops, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, observability, moderation/abuse, data stores, developer experience, analytics, experimentation, and more
Feb 2016 – Oct 2018

LTK(formerly rewardStyle and LIKEtoKNOW.it), Senior Software Engineer

  • Ryan led front-end development for a self-service collaborations portal, where he managed an international team
  • He helped craft two major versions of a screen-scraping infrastructure used to gather data from all influencers for a customer-facing recommendation engine and general business intelligence
  • He helped transition the organization from a two-week deploy cycle to rapid continuous delivery by designing and implementing new core infrastructure patterns
  • He revived multiple legacy node.js analytics projects plagued with stability problems and general disrepair
  • He overhauled infrastructure configuration for another failing project in charge of syncing critical internal data throughout multiple systems
Nov 2015 – Feb 2016

Bottle Rocket Studios, Lead Engineer

  • Ryan utilized his Scala experience to rapidly accelerate development of a complex eCommerce ordering solution for multiple high profile fast food and fast casual restaurants
Nov 2013 – Oct 2015

Slalom Consulting, Consultant

  • Ryan constructed core components for nearly all aspects of a multi-million dollar system prison telecommunication investigative tool
  • He was designated as an authority to navigate Scala-centric AWS data processing pipelines for a prominent agricultural enterprise
Aug 2011 – Oct 2013

Credera, Consultant

  • Ryan interacted with and developed for nearly all aspects of a multi-million dollar automotive eCommerce website, which contained over 50 technology integrations and spanned both desktop & mobile platforms.
  • He captained front-end integration team of a classic Spring MVC implementation for a marketing tool used by an international marketing giant.

Southern Methodist University

  • Bachelor of Science, Computer Science (Minor in Mathematics)

Certifications

  • Certified ScrumMaster® – Scrum Alliance
  • Oracle Certified Professional – Java SE6 Programmer – Oracle

Interests

  • Live Music, Travel, The Acquired Podcast, Video Games, Movies, Food, AI
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