Ryan Payne

IOS Engineer

Charlottesville, Virginia, United States13 yrs 7 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Contributed to apps with 12M+ downloads.
  • Reduced app startup time by 3 seconds.
  • Led documentation initiatives for 150+ engineers.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS-focused Android Engineer with strong leadership in app optimization.

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Skills

Core Skills

AndroidKotlinXamarin.forms

Other Skills

Jetpack ComposeCI/CDMVVMAndroid Jetpack ComposeJavaAmazon Fire TVAndroid TVC#Spring Boot

About

I'm a Staff Android Engineer at Toast. I empower thousands of restaurant owners and their teams. 📊 Career impact: contributed to apps with 12M+ combined downloads across Android, Android TV, and cross-platform. I specialize in Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, and GraphQL for modern Android. But I'm equally comfortable modernizing legacy Java and XML codebases. Performance and Infrastructure: • 🔻 Dropped app download size by 50% (80 MB → 40 MB) • 📉 Cut CI build pipeline by 60% (75 min → 25 min) • ⏰ Reduced app startup time by 3 seconds (5 sec → 2 sec) Technical Leadership: • Led documentation initiatives aligning 150+ engineers on standards (Jetpack Compose, testing, modularization) • Built Jetpack Compose theme and ui components used by 150+ Android engineers • Overhauled customer issue triage, reducing resolution time by 95%+ (months → days) Previous Experience: • Android TV / Amazon Fire TV • Xamarin cross-platform • Java / Kotlin backend • Front-end web More About Me: • 📚 B.S. in Interactive Media from James Madison University. • When I'm not coding: bluegrass flatpicking guitar 🎸, gardening, biking to work, and tackling DIY home projects.

Experience

13 yrs 7 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
2 yrs
Current Experience

Toast

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer, Android

Promoted

Oct 2025Present · 7 mos · Remote

  • Contributed to the Toast Now, MyToast, and Toast POS Android apps serving thousands of restaurants and retail stores.
  • Performance and Infrastructure:
  • ↘️ Dropped MyToast app download size by 20MB (32MB → 12MB).
  • 🔻 Reduced build time by 20 minutes (50min → 30min) on main branch.
  • 📉 Cut module tree height from 11 to 12 by creating API convention plugin.
  • Technical Leadership:
  • Wrote Jetpack Compose standards document aligning 150+ Android engineers.
  • Added Claude Code rules for testing, test fixtures, jetpack compose, git, and Kotlin.
  • Product Features:
  • Toast IQ: Added deep linking and notification support to AI chat interface.
  • 🗝️ Granular permissions: Reduced support tickets by aligning user permissions with access.
  • Manager log: Removed complex, little used team member tagging feature.
KotlinJetpack ComposeCI/CDAndroid

Senior Software Engineer, Android

Apr 2024Sep 2025 · 1 yr 5 mos · Remote

  • Contributed to the Toast Now, MyToast, and Toast POS Android apps serving thousands of restaurants and retail stores.
  • Performance and Infrastructure:
  • 📉 Dropped pull request build time by 50 minutes (75min → 25min)
  • 🔻 Cut app download size by more than 40 MB (86 MB → 43 MB)
  • ⏰ Reduced app startup time by more than 3 secs (5.15s → 1.84s)
  • Updated build pipeline to support hotfix releases
  • Product Features:
  • Device management: built device management feature enabling restaurant owners and managers to troubleshoot and monitor devices (POS, handhelds, printers).
  • 📊 Sales reporting: built sales reporting features covering voids, discounts, refunds, net sales, product mix (PMIX), and labor cost.
  • Technical Leadership:
  • Built Jetpack Compose theme, design tokens, and foundational components (Text, Scaffold, Button) used by 150+ Android engineers.
  • Overhauled customer issue triage within on-call rotation, reducing resolution time by 95%+ (months → days).
KotlinJetpack ComposeCI/CDMVVMAndroid

Willowtree

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer (Android)

Promoted

Jan 2023Apr 2024 · 1 yr 3 mos · Charlottesville, Virginia, United States · Hybrid

  • Architected and built smart home app for a Canadian Telco.
  • Modernized a local music radio station app.
  • Contributed to a React Native app rebuild pitch that resulted in an $8 million contract.
KotlinMVVMAndroid Jetpack ComposeCI/CDAndroid

Platform Software Engineer (Android)

Jan 2022Dec 2022 · 11 mos · Charlottesville, Virginia, United States · Hybrid

  • Updated multiple example plugins used by 150+ Android engineers for onboarding and learning.
  • Transitioned credit card bonus tracker to server driven UI component.
  • Met Google Play deadline by updating CI/CD pipeline to deploy AAB.
KotlinMVVMJavaCI/CDAmazon Fire TVAndroid TV+1

Ramsey solutions

3 roles

Senior Developer I

Promoted

Jun 2021Jan 2022 · 7 mos

  • Lead rebuild of separate Android and iOS native apps to single Xamarin.Forms codebase.
  • Upgraded Finicity bank connect web service enabling customers to continue importing bank transactions.
  • Contributed to multiple Spring Boot (Kotlin, Java) web services.
KotlinMVVMJavaXamarin.FormsC#Spring Boot+1

Developer III

Jul 2018Jun 2021 · 2 yrs 11 mos

  • Created Magnolia CMS plugins, tooling, documentation, tutorials, and training materials for 100+ developers.
  • Contributed to over 10 Spring Boot web services and AWS Lambdas across multiple business units.
  • Built second iteration of internal developer documentation platform system using MkDocs.

Developer II

Jan 2018Jun 2018 · 5 mos

  • Led rebuild of Ramsey Solutions blog using Magnolia CMS.
  • Migrated 2,500+ blog articles (viewed by millions of users each month) into Magnolia CMS.
  • Contributed to first iteration of internal developer documentation system using VuePress.

Lewis communications

2 roles

Senior Web Developer

Mar 2017Jan 2018 · 10 mos · Nashville Metropolitan Area

Web Developer

Jul 2015Mar 2017 · 1 yr 8 mos · Nashville Metropolitan Area

The a group

Web Designer/Developer

May 2013Jul 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos · Brentwood, TN

Chapel springs church

Production Assistant

Jul 2012May 2013 · 10 mos · Bristow, VA

Cstraight media

Web Designer/Developer

Feb 2012Jul 2012 · 5 mos · Vienna, VA

Education

James Madison University

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) — Media Arts and Design - Interactive Media

Jan 2007Jan 2010

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