James Ryan
Austin, Texas, United States
Summary
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SeniorJames Ryan is a seasoned software engineering leader and consultant with 11 years of professional experience building full-stack, cloud-native applications and data platforms. He has led engineering organizations from startup co-founder roles to senior leadership at enterprise retailers, directing digital shopping experiences for kohls.com and mobile apps while also standing up analytics stacks using Redshift, Airflow, Superset, and AWS Fargate. Known for building and mentoring diverse, empowered teams, he blends hands-on architecture and development with a product-minded approach to delivery. He has a track record of launching and exiting companies—founding Ideaffect and co-founding Dasheroo, both acquired—and now advises clients from his Austin base on scalable cloud architecture and application development. A geology BS who pivoted into technology, James brings entrepreneurial grit, cross-functional empathy, and an uncommon depth in both UI and data engineering.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
midi10
tonejs10
music10
music-composition10
audio9
docker-compose2
cli2
amazon-ecs2
kubeflow2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
language-operator/language-operator
Nov 2025 - Jun 2026
Contributions:103 PRs, 709 pushes, 158 branches in 7 months
JamesRyanATX/Harmonicon
Aug 2021 - Nov 2021
An experimental DAW for music as code.
Contributions:180 commits, 14 pushes, 2 tags in 2 months
music-compositionmidiaudioas-codedaw
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