Ryan Shaw is a senior staff engineer with 17 years of experience turning ambiguous, multi-stakeholder problems into shipped, user-facing software. He combines deep front-to-back expertise in TypeScript/JavaScript, React, Remix, Node.js, Rails, and PostgreSQL with proven technical leadership from early-stage startups to large-scale products like Canvas. Ryan has repeatedly moved between hands-on engineering and architecture roles—building entire features end-to-end, leading teams, and co-founding products that simplify complex workflows. Based in Utah, he enjoys seeing real users (and his own kids) interact with systems he helped create, and he brings a practical focus on performance, usability, and measurable delivery.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) CS & MIS, Bachelor of Science (BS) CS & MIS at Utah State University
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