Ryan Walker
Advisor at Tap Bio
San Diego Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolRyan Walker is an engineering executive and advisor with 11+ years of hands-on experience and 17+ years driving mobile platform strategy, AI adoption, and organizational transformation at consumer scale. He currently shapes product platform strategy at MyFitnessPal, impacting 5M+ daily users and contributing directly to subscription revenue through operational and platform improvements. Previously he led engineering teams at Dapper Labs and Apple, delivering platform optimizations that scaled to billions of users and processing 20M+ blockchain transactions while boosting throughput by nearly 30%. A builder at heart, Ryan has co-founded product companies and launched five zero-to-one products that reached 13M+ users, and he pairs that startup grit with formal training in engineering and corporate law. He’s known for turning technical architecture decisions into measurable business outcomes—reducing operational complexity 3x—and for developing engineering leaders, promoting a dozen engineers into senior roles and coaching several into management. Based in San Diego, he combines strategic vision for AI and mobile platforms with a pragmatic bias toward scalable execution.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS/Minor, Mechanical Engineering/Business, BS/Minor, Mechanical Engineering/Business at University of Southern CaliforniaJD, Corporate Law/International Tax, JD, Corporate Law/International Tax at University of California, College of the Law, San Francisco (formerly UC Hastings)Las Lomas High School
spanish (travel), German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (3)
omnifocus2
alfred1
alfred-workflow1
Github contributions (5)
maddenwalker/QueryMe
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:37 commits, 9 PRs, 30 pushes in 24 days
maddenwalker/qmk_firmware
Jul 2021 - Jan 2024
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 6 months
rp2040firmwareavratmelusb
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