Ryan Payne
Staff Software Engineer, Android at Toast
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Payne is a Staff Android Engineer with 11 years of experience building and modernizing mobile products for enterprise and consumer audiences, currently focusing on Toast's POS and Toast Now apps. He drives measurable product and platform improvements—reducing app download size by over 50%, cutting 90th-percentile startup time by 35%, and slashing CI build times—while leading adoption of Jetpack Compose and robust release practices. Ryan has a track record of shipping customer-facing features like device management, sales reporting, and an in-app support portal, and participates in on-call rotations to keep production reliable. He pairs hands-on implementation with mentorship and documentation, having helped onboard hundreds of engineers via sample plugins and internal developer platforms. Based in Charlottesville and trained in Interactive Media at James Madison University, he combines UX sensibility with deep Android engineering craft to make complex systems easier to operate and maintain.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Media Arts and Design - Interactive Media, 3.8, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Media Arts and Design - Interactive Media, 3.8 at James Madison University
Github Skills (109)
xamarin-mac9
xamarin-ios9
image9
typewriter9
xamarin-android9
spring-boot9
arcore9
spring-data-jpa9
jpa8
aac8
file-extension8
single-page8
spring-kotlin8
junit8
image-processing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ryanbrookepayne/tn-state-parks
Nov 2021 - Apr 2023
Toy Android mobile app for browsing Tennessee state parks
Contributions:8 PRs, 96 pushes, 13 branches in 1 year 5 months
parkstennesseeandroidmobile-appbrowsing
caddis/craft-wistia
Jun 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:14 releases, 18 commits, 13 PRs in 4 months
cmsapivideoswistiacraft-plugin
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