Ryan Lederman
Senior Software Engineer at Sparkage Inc.
Boise, Idaho, United States
Summary
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SeniorRyan Lederman is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with over 25 years of hands-on development experience and a decade-plus history of founding and scaling software companies. He co-founded Kayako and Sparkage, stepping away from Apple in 2016 to build Sparkage before returning to Apple as a senior engineer, demonstrating comfort switching between startup scrappiness and large-scale product teams. His background spans systems and application engineering across C++, Objective-C, PHP, and modern platforms, and he has repeatedly shipped cross-platform products used by thousands of organizations. Based in Boise, Idaho, he pairs deep technical craft with operational leadership—having run U.S. operations, hiring, finance, and legal for growing companies—and maintains a professional obsession with cars and motorcycles that informs a practical, hands-on approach to problem solving.
9 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (153)
cmd10
adafruit10
linux-distribution10
windows10
ubuntu10
c1710
iso10
arduino-library10
cpp10
operating-system10
debian10
eventlog10
editor10
graphic10
gfx10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aremmell/emblob
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
A CLI tool to be used as part of a build toolchain which generates linker input object files containing arbitrary files as binary objects (blobs) with accompanying C/C++ header files providing the necessary code to access the blob's data at runtime.
Contributions:2 releases, 15 commits, 29 PRs in 20 days
clicppheader-fileslinkerobject-files
aremmell/libjson
Jun 2018 - Dec 2025
a JSON parser and printer library in C. easy to integrate with any model.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 7 months
json-parser
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