Ryan Sipes
CEO at Mozilla
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Sipes is a mission-driven technology leader and CEO with 11 years building privacy-respecting productivity software and open-source communities. He has scaled Thunderbird’s product, revenue, and community engagement—driving more than 10x revenue growth and stewarding a user base measured in tens of millions of monthly active users. Combining hands-on systems and community-rooted product experience from roles at Mycroft and System76 with formal training in product strategy and an Executive MBA, he bridges engineering, business strategy, and community stewardship. Based in Kansas City, he prioritizes software that is “good and good for people,” balancing commercial sustainability with user privacy and freedom. Not obvious at first glance: his background spans both low-level systems administration and public-facing product leadership, which gives him a rare operational fluency across infrastructure, community, and go-to-market.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Techstars AcceleratorExecutive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Executive MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at Rockhurst UniversityKellogg School of ManagementUniversity of Missouri
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Github Skills (200)
thunderbird-addon10
python10
kitematic10
thunderbird10
dotnet10
linux10
playing10
ai10
nlp10
artificial-intelligence10
voice-assistant10
arch10
letter10
android10
natural-language-processing10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
thundernest/atn-review-policy
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
Reviewer policy for addons.thunderbird.net (Thunderbird add-ons)
Contributions:1 review, 13 commits, 1 PR in 9 months
policyadd-onsaddonsmercuryreviewer
ryanleesipes/whatsup
Nov 2022 - Aug 2024
WhatsApp add-on for Thunderbird Spaces.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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