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 (186)
adafruit10
linux-distribution10
bitbake10
windows10
c1710
ubuntu10
visual-studio10
iso10
arduino-library10
operating-system10
debian10
editor10
debian-linux10
gfx10
u-boot10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
aremmell/libsir
Apr 2018 - Aug 2019
The Standard Incident Reporter library: A lightweight, cross-platform library for information distribution.
Contributions:3 releases, 469 reviews, 219 commits in 1 year 4 months
ansi-colorscc17cpp20cross-platform
aremmell/libbal
Apr 2018 - Feb 2024
Berkeley Abstraction Layer: a lightweight, portable C17/C++20 wrapper library for Berkeley sockets (with asynchronous I/O and IPv6 support)
Contributions:1 release, 12 PRs, 205 pushes in 5 years 10 months
abstraction-layerasync-ioasynchronousberkeley-socketsc17
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