Ryan Barker
Chief Technology Officer at pokebattler.com
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Barker is a seasoned technology executive and CTO based in Los Angeles with 10 years of senior leadership experience building cloud-native, machine learning-driven platforms for large walled gardens and advertisers. He led Zefr’s transformation from agency projects to a SaaS measurement business, growing a measurement line to $10M ARR with 100% YoY growth while architecting real-time video-level ML systems. A pragmatic engineer at heart, he founded Pokebattler.com—reaching over 18M lifetime users—and contributes hands-on backend work such as integrating external APIs and maintaining live game data. Ryan pairs product-focus and operational rigor to reduce time-to-market and capex through event-driven architectures, public APIs, and data lake strategies. He combines deep experience in recommendation, large-scale data pipelines and SRE with a track record of unifying cross-functional teams to deliver measurable business outcomes. His background spans startups to enterprise, from building high-performance messaging buses to optimizing ML model pipelines for production.
10 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
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Github Skills (11)
javas10
java10
data-parsing9
api9
apim9
json9
macos6
des6
base646
google-app-engine6
yaml6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
farkam135/GoIV
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 8 PRs, 5 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on integrating and updating data related to the Pokemon Go game. Their contributions include integrating with a third-party service, Pokebattler, to fetch and process moveset data. They also made updates to the PokemonId class, including new forms, and refined the moveset fetching logic. These changes suggest a focus on data integration and maintaining the application's data up-to-date with game information.
BrunnerLivio/deprecated-pokemongo-game-master
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:43 commits, 30 PRs, 26 pushes in 1 year 2 months
game-mastermasterprotobuf
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