Ryan Schaul
Owner at Sleeping Bear Food Company
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Schaul is a business-minded software engineer and founder with eight years of experience building products, leading engineering teams, and scaling startups. He blends hands-on technical skill across Go, JavaScript, Rails, AWS, and CI/CD with product and commercial strategy, having led M&A-related engineering integrations and launched multiple new products. As Founder/CEO of Transparentrees he raised $1.1M, reached TechStars finalist status, and sustained profitable recurring revenue across 100+ business customers, and more recently runs Sleeping Bear Food Company while advising and mentoring new engineers. At SwipeSense he moved from individual contributor to Senior Director of Strategy, driving decisions that linked product roadmaps, financial modeling, and go-to-market execution for a healthcare tech company. He is known for clear written and verbal communication, practical documentation (onboarding, BC/DR, SOC2) and teaching others—mentoring Launch School graduates through systems design and offer negotiation. Comfortable switching perspectives between engineers, executives, and customers, he repeatedly turns ambiguous problems into measurable outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) at University of Wisconsin-MadisonDoctor of Law (JD), Doctor of Law (JD) at University of Chicago Law School
Github Skills (6)
s3-bucket9
dynamodb8
lambda7
nodejs6
aws6
cli6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ryanschaul/101_programming_foundations
Jul 2017 - Jun 2018
Contributions:216 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
ryanschaul/120_object_oriented_programming
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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