Ryan Pearl
Software Engineer at Row Zero
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolRyan Pearl is a seasoned software engineer with 14 years of experience building and re-architecting core product platforms across startups and scale-ups from Dropbox and Airtable to Patreon and Retool. He specializes in taming complexity across the full stack—shipping backend platforms, refactoring monoliths, and driving wide-scoped product functionality. Comfortable wearing many hats, Ryan has repeatedly taken on “do whatever needs doing” engineering roles that combine hands-on coding with architectural leadership. Based in Oakland, he brings a pragmatic Carnegie Mellon CS foundation to fast-moving teams and is currently focused on building at Row Zero. A detail that surfaces in his profile: he treats contact hygiene seriously—preferring non-gmail addresses—reflecting a preference for deliberate, professional communication.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHawken School
Github Skills (67)
dropbox-api10
bit10
password-strength10
sdk9
api9
mojolicious9
perl9
photon9
synthesis9
password-generator9
mozilla9
leancloud9
swift8
part-of-speech8
inbound8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
chlorophyll/chlorophyll
Jan 2017 - Aug 2022
Tools for photon synthesis
Contributions:612 commits, 2 PRs, 367 pushes in 5 years 8 months
synthesispythonphoton
rpearl/advent
Dec 2020 - Dec 2024
Contributions:67 pushes in 4 years
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