Ryan Bloom
Senior Director at Bridge Industrial
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Bloom is a real estate investment leader with eight years of hands-on experience executing value-add transactions, asset management, and portfolio strategy across industrial, healthcare, and retail sectors. Now Vice President Investment Management at Kurv/Bridge Industrial, he oversees portfolio strategy for the firm’s largest investor and discretionary value-add fund, blending private equity rigor with operator sensibilities. An MBA from Kellogg with a focus on venture capital and entrepreneurship informs his knack for marrying technology and real estate—evident from his work building a PropTech sale-leaseback platform and modeling VC pitches. Earlier roles at Birchwood and PGIM demonstrate repeated success sourcing and closing complex deals and creating analytic dashboards to drive portfolio decisions. He also contributes to open-source editor projects, improving front-end UX and refactoring backend gesture/selection logic, a testament to his practical coding chops and attention to product usability. Outside work he channels creativity and community engagement through improv training and active nonprofit involvement, bringing uncommon communication skills to deal-making and team leadership.
8 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Accountancy and Finance, BS, Accountancy and Finance at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - College of BusinessKellogg School of Management
Github Skills (14)
code-editor10
editors10
swift10
macos10
user-interface10
rust10
text-editor10
editor10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
rpc7
objective-c5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
xi-editor/xi-mac
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
The xi-editor mac frontend.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 12 PRs, 1 push in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributes to the front-end of the xi-mac editor, focusing on enhancing the user interface and user experience. Their work includes implementing new features such as the shift+return find_previous command, and theming the search panel to match the application's appearance. They also addressed memory leaks and improved usability by updating cursor behavior and incorporating improvements for the find panel functionality.
macfrontendappkitmacoseditor
xi-editor/xi-editor
Sep 2018 - Feb 2019
A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core logic of the xi-editor. They implemented new `SelectionGranularity` options and refactored the gesture handling code to be more modular. Furthermore, they addressed deprecated gesture types and updated existing drag functionalities. Their work directly contributes to the editor's core selection and gesture functionalities, enhancing the overall user experience.
rustbackendeditor
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