Summary
Ryan Poonolly is a Senior Software Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of experience building full-stack, high-impact products across startups and finance. He has a track record of shipping core features and architectural improvements—leading squads at Honest Buildings, architecting secure file and encrypted data storage at Cadre, and moving into engineering management at Axios HQ before returning to IC leadership at Cubby. Comfortable bridging product and engineering, he has repeatedly translated business needs (sales tools, investor onboarding, fund accounting) into scalable systems and infrastructure. Ryan’s background in quantitative finance at Goldman Sachs gives him a strong appreciation for correctness and distributed computation, and he’s experienced migrating legacy stacks and implementing permissions, i18n, and security-focused designs. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic leader who thrives on projects that deliver measurable impact.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Rutgers University
Malayalam