Ryan Walek
Senior Software Engineer at Marker Learning
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Walek is a product-focused Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building full-stack web and real-time collaboration systems, now based in New York City. He has blended startup grit and enterprise discipline—serving as a founding engineer at Sparkwise, CTO/co-founder at PathMatch, and a tech lead at Google where he drove major UI performance gains and cross-functional infrastructure decisions. Ryan excels at shipping customer-facing features (video chat via Twilio/WebRTC, Liveblocks collaboration) and rebuilding core products from the ground up while keeping humans and usability central to design. He is comfortable translating ambiguous product needs into pragmatic technical plans and has a track record of reducing complexity and saving users time at scale. Now seeking an in-person NYC role, he brings both entrepreneurial leadership and hands-on execution to teams building meaningful learning and career products.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Github Skills (10)
san10
elections10
jose9
django8
react8
python8
sass6
css6
javascript5
html4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rwalek668/tfsanjay
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 20 days
codeforsanjose/open-disclosure
May 2020 - Jun 2022
A web app to track campaign finances for the General Election (November 3, 2020) in San Jose & South Bay California
Contributions:2 releases, 19 reviews, 60 commits in 2 years 1 month
novemberreactpythonelectionsdjango
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