Ryan Mchenry
Chief Technology Officer at Sharing Excess
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Mchenry is a technology leader and engineer with eight years of experience, currently serving as CTO at Sharing Excess where he helps route and redistribute over 2,000,000 lbs of surplus food weekly to community partners at no cost. He moved up through roles from software engineer to advisor and director before taking the CTO helm, combining hands-on engineering, product management experience from TED and iZotope, and a service-design mindset tailored to the nonprofit sector. Based in Philadelphia and trained in computer science and audio engineering at Northwestern, he blends technical depth with a rare focus on operational impact and humane systems. Known for staying current on emerging tech, he applies fresh engineering ideas to stubborn social problems, prioritizing scalable, mission-aligned solutions over flash.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Audio Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Audio Engineering at Northwestern University
German, English
Github Skills (30)
web-application10
rescue10
firebase10
react10
mysql9
postgresql9
sqlite9
sql9
orm9
nodejs9
create-react-app9
typescript8
open-source7
railway7
command-line-tool6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
sharingexcess/food_rescue_app
Feb 2022 - Jan 2023
Sharing Excess Food Rescue Web Application
Contributions:80 reviews, 266 commits, 284 PRs in 10 months
reactnonprofitfirebasesharingweb-application
sharingexcess/.github
Oct 2021 - May 2026
Contributions:2 reviews, 2 PRs, 41 pushes in 4 years 8 months
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