# Ryan Kaplan

> Early eng at Figma, Dropbox. Loves building creative tools.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryankaplan

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Figma
Jan 2015 – Jan 2023
Early engineer at Figma. I contributed to the core product and infrastructure of both Figma Design and FigJam.

Product Highlights

- I worked with a handful of engineers to ship v1 of Figma. I built various features in the editor, some solo and others in small teams.
- Launched v1 of our prototyping features on a team of 3. Later managed this team as grew from 3 -> 7 eng. While under my leadership we we overhauled our renderer and released our flagship animation feature, Smart Animate.
- I was among the first two engineers to work on FigJam, Figma's whiteboarding product.

Technical Highlights

- Expert in multiplayer sync. Advised various teams on multiplayer feature development.
- I co-authored the internal tooling that powers Figma’s C++ ↔ TypeScript interoperability.
- Led a 2021 initiative with an 8-person team to cut mobile crash rates by 84% in three months.
- Spearheaded a 2022 project to modularize our core editor codebase for easier reuse.

### Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015

### Software Engineering Intern @ Dropbox
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011

### Lab Technician @ Mitrovic Semiconductor Lab
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010


## Education
### ScB in Computer Science, Mathematics
Brown University
Jan 2008 – Jan 2012

### Crawford College Sandton
Jan 2003 – Jan 2008


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryan-kaplan-9b442914
- Website: http://rykap.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-22