Ryan Olson
Co-founder & CTO at Retro
Aspen, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Olson is a product-driven engineering leader and co-founder/CTO with 11 years of experience building mobile-first social products and experimental features. He led core iOS efforts at Instagram—shipping early Stories, IGTV, Direct, and innovations like hold-to-pause, backwards navigation, and GIF stickers—and later founded Instagram Labs to prototype bold new experiences. Now building Retro, a friends-only photo journal, he blends design sensibility with deep engineering craft to take ideas from concept to polished apps. An active iOS open-source maintainer, his in-app debugging tool FLEX is one of the platform’s most popular GitHub projects, reflecting a longstanding commitment to developer tooling. Based in Aspen, Colorado, he pairs startup grit with a systems background from UBC in computer engineering.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering Software Option, Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering Software Option at The University of British Columbia
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Github Skills (200)
null-safety10
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bash10
language-server-protocol10
visual-studio10
material-components-web10
javascript10
async10
linux10
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shell10
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Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
ryanolsonx/dotfiles
Aug 2021 - Apr 2023
Contributions:135 pushes, 5 branches in 1 year 8 months
ryanolsonx/vscode-zenburn-theme
Mar 2018 - May 2022
Contributions:2 releases, 43 commits, 32 pushes in 4 years 3 months
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