Paul Ryan
Chief Executive Officer at Simply Complex, LLC
Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Ryan is a seasoned software leader and CEO with 13 years of professional experience and a lifetime of coding curiosity that began in elementary school. He blends hands-on engineering—evidenced by back-end contributions to the nools rules engine—with strategic leadership across startups and enterprises, from founding Nomad Reservations to shaping architecture at Camping World and Flatirons Solutions. As owner of Simply Complex, he provides CTO-level consulting that turns business hypotheses into testable technical roadmaps and scalable platforms. Paul emphasizes the scientific method in software development, iterating with customers to uncover root problems rather than shipping feature-driven work. Based on Colorado’s Western Slope, he pairs an outdoorsman’s discipline (RV’ing, caving, hiking, running) with a pragmatic approach to culture and process change. His background spans low-level parsing enhancements in open source to enterprise architecture and CEO responsibilities, making him comfortable moving between code, teams, and boardroom strategy.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science/Software Engineering, BS Computer Science/Software Engineering at University of Colorado Boulder
English
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Github Skills (15)
javascript10
engine10
text-parsing10
parsing10
rule-engine10
facebook9
testing9
iis6
beaglebone-black6
linux6
beagleboard6
security6
embedded-linux6
angularjs6
boot6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
noolsjs/nools
Mar 2013 - Apr 2013
Rete based rules engine written in javascript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the `noolsjs/nools` repository by enhancing the rules engine's parsing capabilities. Their work focused on implementing and refining comment block parsing, and adding support for global variables within the rules language. They also made several code modifications to improve the functionality and addressed spacing issues. They added tests to ensure the robustness of global support.
javascriptrules-basedrulesenginerules-engine
nomadreservations/ngx-stripe
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Angular 8.x wrapper for StripeJS
Contributions:58 commits, 8 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 4 months
stripeangular-8ngx-stripestripejsstripe-payments
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