Summary
Ryan Weald is a seasoned technology leader and current CTO based in Bend, Oregon, with 15 years of experience building and scaling digital health products and engineering teams. He combines hands-on full-stack engineering—from real-time data pipelines and backend APIs to React Native and iOS apps—with strategic product and compliance leadership in HIPAA-regulated environments. As an early engineer and hire at multiple startups, Ryan has repeatedly taken products from pre-alpha to market, led hiring and development processes, and navigated integrations and vendor selection for clinical and security requirements. He co-founded a nonprofit to rapidly deliver mental health content during the early pandemic and grew a community-focused brand to thousands of followers, showing a rare mix of product, community, and technical drive. Comfortable in both data-heavy roles (Spark, Hadoop, Scala) and Rails/React stacks, he brings pragmatic engineering discipline—well-tested code and CI/CD—alongside a track record of shipping clinical-grade digital therapeutics. Outside work he’s an avid endurance athlete and climber, a detail that reflects his patient, long-term approach to product and team building.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San Diego
Branham High School