Summary
Ryan Booth is a proven technology leader and Chief Technology Officer based in Chicago with 12 years of experience architecting and scaling SaaS platforms across startups and enterprise environments. He has repeatedly moved between hands-on chief architect roles and senior executive leadership—most recently as CTO at Mashura after leading global engineering and architecture teams at Evive, Trajector, Seismic, and Toast. Ryan has a track record of modernizing legacy systems, building high-performing engineering organizations (including managing 50+ engineers and multimillion-dollar budgets), and translating complex product requirements into pragmatic, scalable architectures. He blends deep technical fluency with operational discipline, coaching teams on agile practices while retaining a strong focus on delivery and reliability. Notably, his career shows a pattern of stepping into transformation-stage companies to design the next-generation platform and scale engineering capabilities quickly.
11 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors Computer Science, Bachelors Computer Science at North Central College