Ryan Srofe
Design Engineering Manager at Nearform
Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Srofe is a design engineering leader with over two decades at the intersection of design and technology and a decade of focused experience managing multidisciplinary teams to translate visionary concepts into production-ready experiences. Currently a Design Engineering Manager at Nearform after leading Design Technology at Formidable, he blends creative thinking, rapid prototyping, and engineering rigor to deliver award-winning interactive customer experiences. His background ranges from founding startups and agencies to building secure, scalable web systems and experimenting with AR, voice, ML, and IoT—skills he uses to inform product strategy and technical direction. Ryan is hands-on with prototypes that guide decisions, mentors engineers to push creative boundaries, and shapes practice-level change that embeds design thinking into engineering workflows. Based in Florida, he pairs a BFA in Digital Arts & Technology with practical DevOps and security experience, which helped him pass rigorous penetration assessments for mission-critical apps. A detail that often surprises collaborators: he started his career creating multimedia educational projects and CD-ROMs, giving him a long-running craft sensibility that informs his modern digital work.
10 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Digital Arts & Technology, Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA), Digital Arts & Technology at International Academy of Design and Technology-TampaMinor, Music Performance, Minor, Music Performance at University of South Florida
Github Skills (49)
data-visualizations10
keynote10
javascript10
charts10
spectacle10
react10
visualization9
visualizations9
data-visualization9
composable8
react-components8
figma8
bootstrap8
masonry7
bootstrap-components7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
FormidableLabs/FigLog
Nov 2023 - Jan 2025
The easiest and most efficient way to document team decisions and the evolution of your changes in Figma.
Contributions:20 reviews, 20 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 2 months
figmafigma-pluginfigmadesign
FormidableLabs/formidable-oss-badges
Jun 2022 - Dec 2023
Dynamic SVG badges for Formidable OSS projects
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 5 months
badgesformidableoss
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