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Ryan Holdaway

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Working on something new at Stealth Startup
📍 Orem, Utah, United States

Ryan is an experienced engineering leader passionate about building teams, fostering culture, and shipping products. He has a track record of managing and scaling engineering and product teams, including leading a team as the first technical hire through a successful acquisition at Shopgenie and managing engineers at Plaid.

Outside of his professional life, Ryan is an avid sports enthusiast. He follows golf, with interests in brands like Callaway, TaylorMade, and Topgolf, and is also a fan of the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

He once gave a talk at a Ruby Conference titled "What do you do with a Drunken Sailor? er. . . Junior Dev. "

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Experience
13 Years
Current Role
Working on something new
Location
Orem, Utah, United States
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Growing Engineering Teams
His career has focused on building and managing engineering teams from the ground up, as seen in his roles at Shopgenie, Plaid, and Lambda School.
Supporting Junior Devs
He has a history of mentoring early-career engineers, establishing an in-house apprenticeship at Lambda School and speaking at conferences on the topic.
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Career

Work history

2-2025
Working on something new
Stealth Startup
12-2023 - 12-2024
Head of Engineering
Shopgenie
12-2021 - 10-2023
Software Engineering Manager
Plaid
5-2018 - 12-2021
Pods Engineering Manager
Lambda School
3-2018 - 5-2018
Labs Director
Lambda School
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