Ryan Felton
Chief Technology Officer at Practis
Kansas City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRyan Felton is a veteran technology leader and CTO with nearly two decades of experience building award-winning, enterprise-grade products and guiding startups from concept to acquisition. He blends hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, having led digital transformations that produced the #1 medical mobile app and pioneered AI-powered, mobile-first features across consumer and B2B platforms. Ryan has a track record of scaling global teams and multi-million-dollar budgets while embedding AI-native development practices to accelerate delivery and experimentation. He has repeatedly navigated high-stakes security and compliance work—HIPAA and HITRUST audits among them—while maintaining rapid product velocity. A former founder and Facebook Innovation Award recipient, he combines startup grit with proven corporate delivery and an unusual ability to translate customer needs into durable, simulation-driven learning products. Based in the Kansas City area, he also brings hands-on teaching experience, having coached developers to industry-ready skills with a 98% course completion rate.
18 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Executive MBA Business Administration, Executive MBA Business Administration at University of Missouri-Kansas CityBachelor’s Degree Computuer Science & Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree Computuer Science & Mathematics at University of Iowa
English, Spanish, Italian
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Github Skills (34)
dsl8
ruby-wrapper7
rails-api7
circular-progress7
activerecord6
jekyll6
ruby-on-rails6
heroku6
model-view-controller6
memcached6
css6
rails6
ruby6
form-builder6
middleware6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryanfelton/rails
Dec 2015 - Jun 2020
Contributions:2 pushes in 4 years 6 months
ruby-on-railsrailsruby-onruby
ryanfelton/textile-editor-helper
Aug 2009 - Apr 2011
Contributions:3 commits in 1 year 8 months
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