Ryan Dainton is a Senior Product Engineer with eight years of experience designing and shipping high-performance web applications, currently driving product engineering at Framer. He specializes in modern front-end stacks—TypeScript, React, Vue/Nuxt, Tailwind—and pairs that with solid backend skills in PHP/Laravel and database optimisation to deliver scalable, secure systems. At Sitka he led a client-first floorplan system that reduced setup from weeks to minutes and built analytics that consistently loaded in under 500ms across millions of rows, demonstrating a pragmatic focus on performance and user experience. He’s known for mentoring teams, introducing better testing and API contracts (notably championing zod adoption), and improving developer velocity through thoughtful abstractions. With a background spanning contracting, SaaS products, and data-heavy interfaces, he brings a blend of client empathy, systems thinking, and a relentless appetite for learning.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Biomedical Sciences, Bachelor of Science - BS Biomedical Sciences at Cardiff University / Prifysgol Caerdydd
Master of Science - MS Health and Disease, Master of Science - MS Health and Disease at Birkbeck, University of London
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