Ryan Brown
Co-Founder Creative Director
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Brown is a partnership-oriented creative director and co-founder with 12 years of experience turning brand strategy into measurable pipeline and scroll-stopping content. At Canva he built a $536K qualified enterprise pipeline and shortened deal cycles with persona-driven outreach and bespoke creative assets, while founding and leading a North America ERG that served 300+ employees. He runs VisualsByRy where he produces lifestyle photo/video campaigns that have boosted Instagram engagement up to 48% for gyms, CPG, and wellness startups, and mentors aspiring creatives. His background delivering SEL curricula and public-health programs to K‑12 students informs a rare blend of community-first programming and performance marketing. Based in Raleigh, he also contributes to open-source Go tooling—refactoring a download manager toward a cleaner Client/Request/Response architecture—reflecting both strategic storytelling and pragmatic engineering chops.
12 years of coding experience
University of Texas at San Antonio
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (5)
file-handling10
go10
download-manager10
api-design9
byte6
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cavaliergopher/grab
Jan 2016 - Jan 2022
A download manager package for Go
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:162 commits, 31 PRs, 157 pushes in 6 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan refactored the codebase to utilize a Client/Request/Response model, indicating a focus on improving the architecture of the download manager. They modified client, request, and response files to implement this new model. The changes reflect a focus on structuring the code to manage file transfers, metadata, and HTTP interactions.
download-managergogolang
cavaliercoder/alexandria
Dec 2014 - Feb 2015
Contributions:131 commits, 32 pushes, 1 comment in 1 month
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