Ryan Mitchell is a staff software engineer based in Austin with over 25 years of hands-on experience across full-stack development, technical consulting, product management, and architecture. He specializes in modern JavaScript stacks—React, Node, MongoDB—and REST API design, often driving rapid, iterative product discovery and prototyping. As a former VP of Technology at an AI-powered recruiting startup and long-time technical lead, he blends customer-facing evangelism with deep implementation expertise. Ryan repeatedly bridges product, sales, and engineering teams to turn ambiguous business needs into production-ready systems. He favors pragmatic, experiment-driven approaches that de-risk investments early and accelerate time-to-feedback. Outside of roles, he stays “neck-deep” in full-stack JavaScript, keeping his technical skills current while mentoring teams on shipping tangible outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Trinity University
keyboard controller firmware for Atmel AVR and ARM USB families
Contributions:2 PRs, 32 pushes, 49 branches in 6 years
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