Ryan Schmidt
Founder & CEO at EO Cleveland
Massillon, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Schmidt is a founder and CEO with 15 years of hands-on software experience, building custom web and mobile applications that turn manual, tribal processes into scalable operational systems. He partners with $10M–$100M businesses to reduce key-person risk, connect disconnected data, and preserve the business practices that make them successful while enabling growth and succession. Ryan leads Skycatchfire as a strategic Fractional CTO, emphasizing learning a client's operations deeply before proposing technical solutions. His background blends design sensibility and engineering—stretching back to freelance web development, product design roles, and early startup leadership—which helps him create elegant, user-friendly systems that teams actually adopt. Based in Massillon, Ohio, he’s active in entrepreneurial communities (EO Cleveland, Hampton) and applies practical, field-tested processes rather than theoretical improvements. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to translate decades of tribal knowledge into auditable, integrated tech backbones for industries from manufacturing to retail.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Graphic Design, Graphic Design at The Art InstitutesAssociates Programming & Database Tech, Associates Programming & Database Tech at Stark State College
Github Skills (86)
python10
automation10
home-assistant10
libfdk-aac10
movie10
mqtt10
instagram-api10
home-automation10
homekit10
iot10
siri10
homebridge10
asyncio10
privacy10
raspberry-pi10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
skycatchfire/handbook
Sep 2021 - Dec 2022
Our employee handbook
Contributions:1 review, 15 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 2 months
javahandbookemployee-handbookdatabase-access
skycatchfire/drupal-starterkit
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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