Ryan Hurley

VP of Engineering

Hamilton, New York, United States14 yrs 6 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led migration unlocking $1.3B in GPV.
  • Reduced app crash rates to all-time lows.
  • Built human-in-the-loop pipelines for ML.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech and Social Media engineering leader with expertise in software development and mobile engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Software EngineeringWeb DevelopmentMobile EngineeringProject ManagementMachine LearningSystem Architecture

Other Skills

JavaJavascriptReact.jsCSSHTMLMongoDBPostgreSQLSwiftNginxMySQLPythonDjangoPhotoshopIllustratorCocos2d

About

Engineering leader who bridges technical complexity and business goals to bring clarity and calm to cross-functional environments, enabling organizations to deliver on complex initiatives at scale. Deeply understands customer problems and product strategy, balancing user value with technical feasibility and delivery timelines. Builds psychologically safe teams that experiment, learn quickly, and grow sustainably. Establishes organizational standards that scale beyond individual teams, from hiring and leveling to instrumentation and data-driven decision-making, ensuring organizations can prioritize effectively and validate their impact.

Experience

14 yrs 6 mos
Total Experience
2 yrs 11 mos
Average Tenure
2 mos
Current Experience

Owner.com

Senior Engineering Manager

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos · Hamilton, NY · Remote

  • Leading multiple engineering teams on some exciting 0-1 initiatives for Owner.com. Stay tuned for more updates.
JavaJavascriptReact.jsCSSHTMLMongoDB+21

Square

Senior Engineering Manager - Food & Beverage Mobile

Apr 2022Mar 2026 · 3 yrs 11 mos · United States

  • Leading a mobile engineering of 11 people delivering ordering experiences for 55,000+ Square for Restaurants subscribers, supporting ~$50B in annual Food & Beverage GPV. Served as Pillar DRI across three F&B mobile POS teams (~25 engineers), driving organizational alignment on reliability, operational reviews, planning, and squad sequencing. Engineering DRI for multi-year Orders migration spanning 100+ engineers across F&B, Orders, and Checkout organizations— successfully migrated Square sellers to the new ordering platform and unlocked critical seller requests including preauthorization, unblocking $1.1-1.3B in GPV via sales pipeline. Under my watch, drove application crash rates to 0.6% (iOS) and 0.2% (Android) of daily active devices—all-time lows, Coached 5+ engineers to promotion including one to Staff level (L7), and mentored peer engineering managers across pillar teams through performance feedback, work review, and promotion packet development. Empowered senior engineers to experiment with AI tools to increase velocity through task automation and parallel execution of complex work.
JavaJavascriptReact.jsCSSHTMLMongoDB+22

Twitter

3 roles

Engineering Manager - Signals Tooling / Human-in-the-Loop

Promoted

Oct 2019Apr 2022 · 2 yrs 6 mos

  • Managed two engineering teams (13 direct reports at peak) within Cortex, Twitter's machine learning organization. Led team of 10 engineers building internal web applications serving 50+ global curators across localized markets, with tooling interfacing directly with Trends, Events, and Push notification systems—enabling content distribution to hundreds of millions of users. Stood up 0-to-1 team of 3 engineers building human-in-the-loop training data pipelines designed to serve Twitter's entire ML organization by blending human curation signals with third-party training data providers. Collaborated with multiple product managers to define and deliver roadmaps and OKRs while consistently growing MAU (monthly active users) by millions year over year. Constructed new interview questions for Twitter’s first apprenticeship program.
JavaJavascriptReact.jsCSSHTMLMongoDB+22

Senior Software Engineer

Promoted

Nov 2018Oct 2019 · 11 mos

  • Tech lead for Twitter Moments. Collaborated with four other teams to architect and build the initial distributed system for Twitter Events, which supported high-profile global moments including the 2018 World Cup.
JavaJavascriptReact.jsCSSHTMLMongoDB+22

Software Engineer II

Jul 2016Nov 2018 · 2 yrs 4 mos

Helloshopper

Software Engineer

Nov 2015Jun 2016 · 7 mos · Greater Boston Area

  • HelloShopper is a personal shopping service that helps you give great gifts (to someone else or to treat yourself!). The chat-based mobile and web app connects customers with a network of gift shoppers, on-demand, from any device.

Tripadvisor

3 roles

Tech Lead - Room CMS

Aug 2015Nov 2015 · 3 mos

  • Perfecting room descriptions for Instant Book.

Software Engineer II for Mobile

Jun 2013Aug 2015 · 2 yrs 2 mos

  • Full stack web developer working on the mobile web team at TripAdvisor.

Software Engineering Intern

May 2012Sep 2012 · 4 mos · Newton, MA

  • Worked on web applications used by other TripAdvisor employees in efforts to support the live site.

University of massachusetts amherst

Research Assistant

Sep 2011May 2013 · 1 yr 8 mos

  • Developed software to aid the research goals of the Commonwealth Center for Forensics and Society.

Mit lincoln laboratory

Summer Intern

Jun 2011Aug 2011 · 2 mos

  • Designed and implemented demonstration software based on current cryptography efforts at MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Master — Computer Science

Jan 2011Jan 2013

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Bachelor — Computer Science

Jan 2007Jan 2011

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