Ryan S.

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About Ryan S.

Ryan loves building amazing products. Ryan has a strong entrepreneurial mindset having created a number of successful startups. Ryan is passionate about innovating and discovering creative and pure solutions to problems. Ryan has deep hands-on experience creating companies from conception to acquisition. Ryan is never afraid of mastering new areas and has built up a strong skill set in many areas including product management, social design, software development, business strategy, monetization, growth tactics, conversion optimization, and marketing. This allows him to make coherent product decisions by understanding priorities across different company departments. Ryan is data driven and always looks to maximize efficiency and produce the highest value from fixed resources. Ryan began his career building several notable web startups, then he was part of the core executive team working hard to save MySpace, Ryan was a founding partner at Science a new technology studio/incubator. Ryan has a MS and BS in Computer Science from UCSD. Specialties: Deep understanding of consumer internet and social design. Published research in Computer-Human Interaction, Computer Mediated Communication. Specialize in product management and business strategy. Produced highly profitable results with monetization and growth tactics. Can make code do beautiful things, code both front and back-end including PHP, MySQL, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Python, C++, JAVA. Strong background in affiliate programs, APIs, aggregation, hacking, and screen scraping.