Ryan Burns
Senior Engineering Manager at Tinder
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Burns is a senior engineering manager with a decade of experience building and scaling cross-functional teams and engineering processes, currently leading at Tinder. He has a strong background moving from hands-on software engineering to product-aligned management roles at GrandPad and Acorns, pairing technical depth with product empathy. Known for an agile, continuous-improvement mindset, he organizes teams to deliver reliable systems while fostering clear communication and accountability. Based in California, he also brings teaching and editorial experience—having been an adjunct CS professor and technical editor—which sharpens his ability to mentor engineers and clarify complex concepts. Colleagues describe him as organized, prompt, and passionately invested in outcomes, and he thrives both in collaborative teams and when driving initiatives independently.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computational and Data Sciences, Master of Science (MS) Computational and Data Sciences at Chapman UniversityEstancia High School
Github Skills (14)
tap-target-view10
feature-discovery9
codable8
resource-manager7
font-size7
swift6
cocoapods5
objective-c5
ios4
material-design4
firebase3
firebase-storage2
firestore2
firebase-database2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
poisondminds/firebase-db-wrapper-swift
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
poisondminds/skeleton-label
Aug 2019 - Oct 2019
Contributions:7 releases, 16 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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