Ryan Smith
Chief Technology Officer at Voice-Swap
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Smith is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Oxford with 13 years of experience building reliable, product-focused engineering organisations and scalable data-driven services. He has moved from hands-on engineering—contributing to open-source listings like microjs.com and architecting high-traffic xAPI and LRS systems—to managing distributed teams of up to 30 engineers across multiple countries and time zones. Known for reducing turnover and creating cohesive, product-minded teams, he blends practical system architecture (SQL migrations, AWS/IaC, CI/CD) with people-first leadership. Ryan splits time as a fractional principal engineer and manager when needed, favoring meaningful challenges with passionate, caring colleagues. He also studies Japanese and holds an MBA, reflecting a curiosity for culture and business that informs his technical and managerial decisions.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Japanese Intermediate, Japanese Intermediate at Oxford Lifelong Learning, University of OxfordA-Levels, A-Levels at Prince Henry's High School - Sixth FormMaster of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Administration and Management, General at thePowerSoftware Engineering BSc, Computer Science, Software Engineering BSc, Computer Science at Oxford Brookes University
Japanese
Github Skills (8)
json10
javascript10
micro10
lib10
front-end-development8
searching7
f6
func6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microjs/microjs.com
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Fantastic Micro-Frameworks and Micro-Libraries for Fun and Profit!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Ryan primarily contributed to the `microjs.com` repository by adding and removing micro-libraries to the `data.js` file. These commits involved modifying the JSON structure containing library information, including names, descriptions, URLs, and tags. The user focused on updating the library listing to reflect new additions and removals of available micro-libraries.
cppjavascriptframeworkfor-funprofit
LearningLocker/Moodle-xAPI-Translator
Jun 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:5 releases, 40 PRs, 73 pushes in 2 years 4 months
eventsrecipetranslatesxapioptions
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