Hi! I’m Ryan. I’ve been in the startup world here in Seattle for the last 10+ years in a variety of roles with a bunch of different teams. These days, I act as a technical adviser and CTO for several early stage startups and do some work as a freelance software architect and product designer. I love working with interesting people with creative ideas. I love making simple, easy to use things that make other people more productive and happy. I also love beer, which makes me happy, but maybe not productive :)

CTO @ Building technology to better connect coaches and players. From April 2015 to Present (7 months) Holland, MICTO & Cofounder @ Simplifying draft menu management and providing data that is actually useful to craft breweries, beer bars, wineries and their customers. From November 2014 to Present (1 year) Seattle, WAPresident & Director @ This is my passion project. I was fortunate enough to be elected President, a role I held for nearly 3 years. Flying Bike is Washington's first cooperative brewery and now has over 1,000 member-owners. I've had my hands in everything from strategy, to fundraising, to business development, to lease negotiation, to brewery design and lots more. Although I am still on the Board and actively involved, I left the President role in 2015 to focus on other interests. From September 2012 to Present (3 years 2 months) Greater Seattle AreaCTO & Product Architect @ At PlaceFull, I led product design, managed the development team and processes, architected scalability improvements, designed highly scalable infrastructure (AWS) and transaction security, contributed to feature development and built mobile apps (iOS and Android). I also led sales and marketing strategy discussions and acted as a business advisor. From June 2013 to October 2014 (1 year 5 months) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Development Lead @ X2 Biosystems is a Seattle-based startup building concussion detection devices for use in sports. I led development for the web-based portal and data-warehouse delivered as part of a contract with the NFL. From August 2012 to May 2013 (10 months) Greater Seattle AreaCTO & Co-Founder @ Jumyo was a mobile startup I co-founded. We built a collaborative, photo and narrative based storytelling platform and community. We released our first iPhone app in November 2012, but we failed to gain the market and investment traction we were hoping for. This project is why I fell in love with Node.js From May 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 1 month) Seattle, WASr. Product Lead @ Promethean creates leading edge, interactive learning technology and encourages the growth of the world's largest online teacher community in this field. Promethean is helping bring to life the promise of 21st century learning, improving engagement and results for learners and teachers alike. SynapticMash was acquired by Promethean in July 2010. - Lead Product Engineer for the ActivProgress development team - Managed software release planning, scheduling and team coordination - Managed dev team hiring process including screening, interviewing and hiring - Developed and managed strategic relationships with Fortune 500 partners - Created software system design specifications and project plans - Pitched product ideas to Senior Management Teams and Board of Directors - Mentored and managed relationships with team members and direct reports - Grew and led a strong, cohesive development team - Extensive traveling to visit and oversee partner and customer sites From July 2010 to September 2012 (2 years 3 months) Greater Seattle AreaVice President, Board of Directors @ Adviser for strategic business and marketing decisions. Was elected President of the Board of Directors in September 2012. From January 2012 to August 2012 (8 months) Seattle, WALead Software Engineer @ SynapticMash was a Seattle-based education startup specializing in web-based assessment, social networking and data analytics. My role helped see the company through acquisition by Promethean in 2010. - Product Development Lead for several small product teams. - Architect for user interface and user experience in all web applications and modules. - Participated in due diligence interviews during our acquisition process. - Design and development of user interface controls with heavy utilization of AJAX and the prototype library. - Developing system framework and application architecture as well as software development patterns and practices implemented across the platform. From November 2008 to July 2010 (1 year 9 months) Greater Seattle AreaSoftware Engineer @ As a technology consulting firm, Explore Consulting provides a variety of software solutions for a client list that includes: Microsoft, The Onion, Dash Navigation, National Football Scouting, Valve Software, and Safeco. Explore specializes in custom .NET application development and data integration services interfacing with NetSuite. - Lead architect and developer for the Data Integration Module (DIM): a flexible framework for data integration processes. Led training and development review sessions for customer projects. - Led design and architecture meetings for new projects, requirements gathering and estimation - Developed a reusable, WCF library to speed up custom development projects. - Moved team towards more efficient and organized development practices, focusing on architecture, design patterns, version control and documentation. - Communicated and coordinated with clients, partners and vendors. From November 2006 to September 2008 (1 year 11 months) Bellevue, WASoftware Engineer @ Moxie Business Advisors services a number of small to mid-size companies in the Seattle area, providing productivity-enhancing custom application development. - Developed a modular ASP.NET application framework to increase the efficiency of building custom web applications. - Developed an extensive ASP.NET web control library that utilized emerging AJAX technologies. The library utilized AJAX to provide an extremely responsive user experience that was otherwise unavailable. - Architected middleware component to interface between .NET applications and an agnostic reporting platform. - Consulted and provided design and development assistance for a variety of client projects. From 2003 to November 2006 (3 years) Greater Seattle AreaCo-Founder & Web Developer @ Engaged with clients, collected requirements, worked with the internal design team and developed dozens of websites and web applications for a variety of markets. From 2001 to 2003 (2 years) Bellingham, Washington AreaCo-Founder @ Developed an online shopping application for computer and car stereo electronics. Managed customer service, warehousing, shipping and marketing. From 2000 to 2001 (1 year) Bellingham, Washington Area

Ryan Vanderpol is skilled in: Web Applications, .NET, Mobile Applications, Software Design, ASP.NET, JavaScript, C#, Amazon Web Services..., Microsoft SQL Server, Software Development, Scalability, Web Services, HTML 5, HTML, Entrepreneurship, Agile Methodologies, Solution Architecture, CSS, Web Development, Management, Craft Beer, iOS development, User Interface, Scrum, Architecture, Test Driven Development, Objective-C, JSON, Software Engineering, ASP.NET MVC, Android, Awesomeness, Brewing, Cloud Computing, Start-ups, Software Project..., Agile Project Management, REST, MVC, Git, Architectures, User Experience, SaaS, Node.js, Snowboarding, Partner Development, MongoDB, NoSQL, Product Development, AJAX