Ryan Cowan
Engineering Manager at Swoogo
Rocklin, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Cowan is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading full-stack and backend teams through platform refactors, migrations, and product-driven delivery across startups and mid-size companies. He has a track record of turning slow incident cycles into rapid responses, improving squad velocity, and designing hiring and interview processes that scale technical teams. Comfortable both hands-on in code (PHP, Python, Ruby, Java) and at the managerial level, he builds internship programs and mentors early-stage companies on engineering culture. At Guideline and MNTN he led cross-functional initiatives around compliance automation and CRM data services, while at HomeLight and ActiveCampaign he balanced A/B experimentation with platform modernization. Based in Rocklin, CA, he combines practical architectural thinking with talent development—an instructor-turned-manager who still dives into bugs and refactors to keep teams productive.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts Graphic Design Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts Graphic Design Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
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Github Skills (13)
magicmirror9
php9
javascript9
mirror9
yii9
raspberry-pi8
php-framework8
modular8
iot6
php-api6
cms5
rails3
react1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ryancowan/junk_drawer
Dec 2015 - Oct 2025
Contributions:30 PRs, 24 pushes, 31 branches in 9 years 11 months
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ryancowan/level_up_exercises
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:48 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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