# Ryan Vall

> Staff Engineer at SonderMind

Location: Greater Cleveland, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanvall

I'm a staff software engineer from Cleveland, OH who specializes in full-stack web development using Angular and Ruby on Rails. I have several years of experience as a technical leader who builds robust, fast, and scalable solutions to technical problems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Engineer @ SonderMind
Jan 2023 – Present | Denver, Colorado, United States

### Senior Software Engineer Team Lead @ Top Echelon Software
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Canton, Ohio, United States
- Led feature development team on company's flagship product
- Continuously improved application performance (API response times, database queries, client side performance)
- Extensively mentored other engineers at all levels across all teams
- Aided CTO and product leadership in creating OKRs for entire development department
- Organized and facilitated scrum meetings and developer discussions

### Software Engineer Team Lead @ Top Echelon Software
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Canton, Ohio, United States
- Extracted a scalable microservice out of existing monolithic application utilizing React, NodeJS, and Apache Kafka
- Managed a team of 2-3 software engineers, conducted biweekly 1:1s
- Assisted product management in planning team and company roadmap
- Upgraded and improved performance of existing monolith with zero downtime

### Software Engineer @ Top Echelon Software
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Canton, Ohio Area
- Continued development of Big Biller recruiting software/ATS from Patriot Software.
- Led development of several features utilized by Top Echelon's Recruiting Network
- Utilized Angular for new front-end components, contributed to hybrid application setup
- Improved application performance by optimizing API requests/data loading, database/search queries

### Software Engineer @ Patriot Software, LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Canton, Ohio Area
- Developed Big Biller recruiting software using Ruby on Rails (back-end API) and AngularJS (front-end)
- Wrote test cases in RSpec and Jasmine
- Contributed to deployments using Docker and Jenkins
- Chairman of software development committee
- Member of Top Echelon's (Patriot subsidiary) tactical team, responsible for carrying out the company's strategic plans/strategy

### Software Engineering Intern @ Rosetta
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
-Developed model-view-controller (MVC) components for use in Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) using Java and HTML/Sightly
-Created a new online giving portal for non-profit organization using PHP and MySQL (hosted on Wordpress)
-Identified and resolved bugs in existing features using JIRA for tracking

### ITLP Intern @ GE Lighting
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area
-Worked on cloud application server support and back-end user maintenance
-Wrote Ruby scripts to automate server builds at Amazon Web Services (AWS) using Chef and AWS CloudFormation
-Automated the server connection process to AWS using Chef/Shell scripts
-Documented processes on an informational site for application developers


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Magna Cum Laude, Computer Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016

### Carmel High School
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ryanvall

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Last updated: 2026-03-22