Ryan Nystrom
Software Engineer at Notion
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Nystrom is a seasoned iOS engineer with 14 years of experience building pixel-perfect mobile experiences and scalable backend services, currently contributing at Notion after leadership and senior engineering roles at companies like Facebook, GitHub, Artifact, and Campsite. He favors rapid prototyping and shipping MVPs while obsessing over UI detail and graceful error handling for apps that handle many concurrent connections. An active open-source maintainer, Ryan has improved high-profile projects such as AsyncDisplayKit and GitHawk, and authored popular UI libraries (RNGridMenu, RNFrostedSidebar) that demonstrate his focus on polished interaction and animation. Comfortable leading teams or diving deep into implementation, he blends product-driven urgency with a strong emphasis on maintainability and performance.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at University of Cincinnati
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Github Skills (30)
asynchronous10
ux-design10
objective-c10
ios10
animation10
async10
autocomplete10
user-interface10
image-loading10
ui-design10
xcode10
uid10
front-end-development10
swift10
uikit10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
GitHawkApp/StyledTextKit
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Declarative building and fast rendering attributed string library.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:48 commits, 63 PRs, 67 pushes in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily focused on improving the `StyledTextKit` library, with contributions centered around image handling and rendering within the `StyledTextView` component. The changes include adding an API to better handle image attachments to StyledText, and the addition of options for image fitting and centering, improving the display of images. Additional commits included the addition of unit tests for the image functionality.
string-libraryreactstringjavascriptdeclarative
GitHawkApp/GitHawk
Jun 2017 - Mar 2019
The (second) best iOS app for GitHub.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer & iOS Mobile Developer
Front-end Developer & iOS Mobile DeveloperContributions:8 releases, 562 commits, 1343 PRs in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Ryan's contributions focused on enhancing the accessibility and user interface of the iOS application, particularly within the issue and pull request views. They implemented new merge functionality, including the selection of different merge types and an animated indicator for the merge status. Furthermore, the user worked on enhancing the UI and user experience of the app by adding and improving features. The commits involved integrating the use of a new text view and making the app look more appealing.
ios-appswiftiosgithawksecond
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