Ryan Edstrom
Product Manager - APIs at Courage Kenny Rehabilitation Institute
Eden Prairie, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Edstrom is a product manager specializing in APIs with an MBA and a decade of experience delivering cross-functional programs that consistently beat budget, schedule, and ROI targets. At Best Buy he led the Open API initiative—launching the developer portal, IFTTT channel, affiliate and multiple commerce APIs—while forecasting and controlling a $3M annual budget for a 22-person team. His background in supply chain and operations at Target drove multi-million dollar cost reductions and informed his pragmatic approach to product decisions and holiday readiness planning. Known for building high-performing teams, he pairs structured forecasting tools and agile practices with hands-on mentorship to improve morale and execution. Outside of tech, he commits to adaptive sports as a volunteer snowboard instructor, bringing inclusive leadership and process improvements to nonprofit programs. This blend of engineering-rooted problem solving, financial rigor, and customer-focused API productization distinguishes his work.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship, MBA, Strategic Management & Entrepreneurship at University of St. Thomas - Opus College of BusinessBachelor of Civil Engineering, Structual Engineering, Bachelor of Civil Engineering, Structual Engineering at University of Minnesota
Github Skills (4)
api-documentation8
api7
openapi6
changelog1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
BestBuyAPIs/api-documentation
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Source that compiles the documentation for Best Buy's APIs
Contributions:8 commits, 10 PRs, 6 pushes in 3 months
apiopenapiapi-documentationbuy
BestBuyAPIs/api-release-notes
Mar 2016 - Mar 2016
https://developer.bestbuy.com/changelog
Contributions:3 pushes in 1 day
changelog
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