Ryan A. Koval

Nov 2018 – present

Ryan was a member of the original core engineering team responsible for the start-up's $7M Series A funding round
He worked full-stack building across web, desktop, mobile, backend, devops, CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and data stores
He led multiple product and engineering initiatives from end-to-end, including gathering user requirements, working with UX design team, and shipping implementations to production

Feb 2016 – Oct 2018

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

Nov 2015 – Feb 2016

Ryan was assigned as a developer to utilize Scala experience to help speed along development of a complex eCommerce ordering solution

Nov 2013 – Oct 2015

Ryan developed components for nearly all aspects of a multi-million dollar system prison telecommunication investigative tool.
He was assigned as a senior lead to drive Scala development of a huge AWS data processing pipeline for an agricultural business giant

Aug 2011 – Oct 2013

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 over both desktop & mobile platforms.
He led front-end integration team of a classic Spring MVC implementation for a marketing tool used by an international marketing giant.