Ryan Bruels
Head Of Engineering at Various Companies & Startups
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Bruels is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 15 years of experience building consumer and enterprise products from iOS apps to AI-driven platforms. Currently Head of Engineering at Atypical AI and serving as a fractional CTO, he blends hands-on engineering (dating back to launching parts of the iPhone SDK at Apple) with strategic leadership across startups and large enterprises like Starbucks and Knock. He has a track record of scaling remote-first teams, driving digital transformations that moved product metrics and transactions at scale, and shipping polished mobile experiences—his early work includes notable iOS apps such as the iReddit client and award-winning projects from his firms. A pragmatic tinkerer and AI architect, Ryan pairs deep technical fluency in mobile, backend, and data systems with a talent for mentoring leaders and making hybrid work actually work. Based in Seattle, he brings founder-level ownership and a curiosity for product-market feedback loops that repeatedly turn prototypes into retained user bases.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Colorado Boulder
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Github Skills (15)
objective-c10
uid10
ios10
front-end-development10
ui-design9
user-interface8
graphical-user-interface8
facebook-ios-sdk6
interface-builder6
cocoa-touch6
javascript6
react-native6
iphone6
react6
uibarbuttonitem6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
reddit-archive/iReddit
Dec 2010 - Jan 2011
The iReddit iPhone app
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:43 commits in 24 days
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on the iReddit iPhone app, making several changes related to the UI and functionality. They fixed autorotation bugs across multiple view controllers and updated the app to use the Three20 framework. The user also implemented improvements to the comment bubble and other UI elements, and refactored code related to message handling. Additionally, they removed deprecated code and refactored the random story feature.
swiftiosiphoneiphone-app
rbruels/minivmac4ios
Jan 2019 - May 2022
Mini vMac for iOS
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 years 4 months
swiftioslibimobiledevice
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