Ryan Fox
Senior Executive Sourcer at YETI
Boulder, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Fox is a Senior Executive Sourcer with 13 years of talent acquisition experience and 6+ years focused on placing senior technical and commercial leaders across North America, Europe, and APAC. He specializes in hard-to-fill executive roles in AI, Blockchain, Web3, Cryptography, and Machine Learning, combining deep domain knowledge with cross-cultural fluency and a relationship-driven, high-output approach. Ryan has built global executive recruiting programs from the ground up—most notably as the first executive recruiter at IOHK—placing 20+ C-level and senior leaders across engineering, cryptography, finance, and GTM functions. He pairs enterprise recruiting experience at Amazon and YETI with hands-on technical credibility evidenced by open-source contributions to projects like astropy and BitMEX connectors, which sharpen his understanding of engineering and API ecosystems. Based in Boulder, Colorado, he’s equally comfortable advising C-suite stakeholders and executing tactical sourcing strategies that reduce time-to-hire and improve quality of hire. Beyond recruiting, he’s building an image-based personal search engine (apse.io), signaling a curiosity for product and engineering that informs his talent instincts.
13 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science - BS, Sport's Leadership and Management, Bachelor of Science - BS, Sport's Leadership and Management at Miami University
Github Skills (27)
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python10
apidoc10
testing10
bitcoin10
websocket10
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data-structure10
java10
javas10
astropy10
api10
data-structures10
nodejs10
api-design9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
BitMEX/api-connectors
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Libraries for connecting to the BitMEX API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & API Developer
Back-end Developer & API DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 8 PRs, 20 pushes in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the BitMEX API connectors by updating and maintaining various client libraries, particularly those written in Python and Node.js. Their work included porting code to Python 3, fixing API-related bugs, and enhancing the websocket functionality, including the implementation of authentication and error handling. They also made improvements to the documentation and ensured compatibility across different versions.
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BitMEX/sample-market-maker
Jan 2018 - Sep 2018
Sample BitMEX Market Making Bot
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 13 pushes, 4 branches in 8 months
Contributions summary:Ryan contributed to the core functionality of a BitMEX market-making bot. Their work involved adding features like configurable timeouts and ensuring the bot's compatibility with Python 3. The user also focused on improving the packaging of the project, enabling installation via pip, and enhancing the testing infrastructure for API key authentication and websocket multiplexing. These contributions directly improved the bot's stability, usability, and ease of deployment.
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