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Ryan Simon
Staff Android Engineer and mobile engineering leader specializing in Kotlin Multiplatform
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Engineering leader with hands-on Android architecture expertise who has scaled mobile teams at Weedmaps (including forming a Platform team and rolling out MVVM/unit testing) and also co-founded a bootstrapped side business (Sizzle), owning the technical roadmap, hiring strategy (university pipeline + senior remote engineers in Pakistan), and stepping into fundraising when runway became critical.
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Key Strengths
- Built and executed a technical roadmap for a bootstrapped side business (budget, timeline, staffing, tech stack, UX scope)
- Creative, cost-conscious hiring strategy leveraging university pipelines and senior engineers in Pakistan
- Scaled Android engineering at Weedmaps by creating a Platform team to drive tooling, documentation, and architecture consistency
- Led app-wide architectural migration to MVVM without disrupting squad OKRs/KPIs
- Improved developer productivity and satisfaction (reported via PM/engineer surveys) through platform ownership and DX improvements
- Turned around a brittle Android Driver app by piloting an architecture change in an isolated critical area, then rolling it out to restore stability and increase feature velocity
- Effective delegation during fundraising crunch by empowering trusted engineers with clear directives and regular check-ins
Reference Highlights
- Highly collaborative leadership style
- Structured and forward-thinking
- Effective leader in every observed capacity
- Aligns technology with broader strategic goals
- Articulates complex technical concepts clearly
- Leads with rigor and empathy
- Guides teams effectively through ambiguity
- Keeps execution aligned to measurable business impact
- Strong at prioritizing with limited resources
- Unblocks teams by directly helping solve critical issues
- Empowers product/UX work and maintains momentum
- Delivered HIPAA-compliant integrated platform under constraints
- Launched Early Preview product on time
- Enabled early provider adoption
- Built technical credibility for larger research/commercial partnerships
- Creates low-friction, non-hierarchical cross-disciplinary collaboration
- Improved team organization and proactivity over time
- Steady under pressure; stabilizing presence
- Absorbs pressure rather than pushing it downward
- Communicates more and increases transparency during high-pressure periods
- Steps in to make decisions when direction is needed
- Reframes setbacks as opportunities; pivots quickly
- Strong technical curiosity and user empathy
- Drives meaningful product differentiation
- Encourages innovation and bold ideas
- Recognizes emerging opportunities early
- Thoughtful, steady, highly collaborative leadership
- Exceptional at translating business goals into clear technical direction
- Builds alignment across teams
- Strategic, grounded technology decision-making
- Connects technical choices to real user and business needs
- Calm communication style
- Reliable
- Long-term thinker
- Elevated product quality
- Strengthened team confidence in technical roadmap
- Elevated engineering culture through structure and clarity
- Strong mentor; leads by example
- Cultivates calm problem-solving and technical curiosity
- Ensures engineers understand the why behind work
- Built a cohesive, accountable, mission-driven team
- Improved team efficiency and confidence
- Handles high-pressure periods with composure
- Doesn't let urgency compromise quality or morale
- Provides a grounding presence during fast-moving launches
- Deep technical insight paired with user understanding
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