Ryan Morris
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VP of Engineering
California, United States
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VP of EngineeringDescriptSep 2025 - Current (1 year 2 months)- Head of PlatformDescriptMar 2025 - Sep 2025 (7 months)Enabling our product and AI teams to deliver features and models more quickly, effortlessly, and reliably.
- VP of EngineeringFeed Media Group FMGApr 2024 - Mar 2025 (1 year)
- Director of EngineeringFeed Media Group FMGAug 2023 - Apr 2024 (9 months)
- Director of Software EngineeringSlackOct 2021 - Mar 2023 (1 year 6 months)
- Senior Engineering ManagerSlackSep 2019 - Oct 2021 (2 years 2 months)
- Engineering ManagerSlackSep 2017 - Sep 2019 (2 years 1 month)
- Software Engineering ManagerPandoraMay 2015 - Aug 2017 (2 years 4 months)
- Engineering ManagerGuidewire SoftwareJul 2013 - May 2015 (1 year 11 months)• Manage team of engineers with weekly one-on-ones, and biannual written reviews
• Lead manager for the application-engineer interview committee which handles interview structure, interviewer training, and evaluation of prospective candidates to Gudewire development.
• Led effort to codify expectations for the software engineer and senior software engineer title so managers could be more specific and transparent about the two titles for existing developers and new hires.
• Assist the lead engineering manager with project tracking, resource allocation, and personal issues
• Technical advisor on a number of internal projects including company conversion from Perforce to Git, re-architecture investigation, customer project - Senior Software Engineer / Performance LeadGuidewire SoftwareJan 2010 - Apr 2015 (5 years 4 months)• Scaled upperformance team to focus on rapidly scaling BillingCenter for large insurance carriers. This resulted in us being able to scale the product 5-10x larger than before.
• Rewrote and redesigned BillingCenter's data generation framework for performance testing
• Gave developer talks on various product frameworks including how to handle writing upgrade, understanding how SQL works, and how to read performance instrumentation.
• Worked on feature development for versions 3, 7, 8, and 9 of BillingCenter
• Handled complex customer escalations from technical support - SLead EngineerSensageFeb 2007 - Jan 2010 (3 years)• Awarded the SenSage Engineering Star award twice
• Designed and helped build the SenSage-McAfee integration effort, leading SenSage to win McAfee’s 2008 Most Innovative Partner Award. (Spring, XML-RPC, Java)
• Led engineering effort to productize SenSage ETL and reporting offerings, successfully delivering analytics content with each SenSage product releases. (Java, SQL, Python, Perl) - GSenior Software EngineerGroxisJan 2005 - Mar 2005 (3 months)• Built a reporting application for a federated search engine that handled collection and storage of statistical data, analysis of data, and generation of graphical reports (Ant, Java, MySQL, JReports)
- User Interface EngineerWily TechnologyJun 2004 - Sep 2004 (4 months)• Developed an integrated help system for Wily’s next generation server/network monitoring system (JavaHelp, Isomorphic JavaScript framework, Webworks)
- DSenior Software EngineerDigital Government OnlineJan 2002 - Jan 2003 (1 year 1 month)• Developed architecture for converting previous code base from Cold Fusion to Java (J2EE) utilizing Struts framework and JSTL
• Redesigned and migrated existing database (SQL 7 to MySQL) for more versatility, speed, and capturing of site statistics
• Responsible for server installation, configuration and support (Resin/MySQL) - CSoftware EngineerCox Interactive MediaJan 2001 - Jan 2003 (2 years 1 month)• Lead engineer on weather/forecast application (integrated with Accuweather), national lottery information system, and real time airport information for Los Angeles International Airport (J2EE Servlet, EJB, JSTL, XSLT, and C)
• Assisted hybridization and conversion of Perl code base to Java/J2EE environment - OSoftware EngineerOnaircomJan 2000 - Jan 2001 (1 year 1 month)• Developed user interface for music and e-commerce applications (JSP and DHTML)
• Integrated presentation tier (Servlet/JSP) with business logic (EJB)
• Developed an automated application for managing advertising clients (Perl)
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- B.S Computer Science/ Mathematics, Computer Science, Mathematics, User InterfaceSan Francisco State UniversityJan 2003 - Jan 2005 (2 years 1 month)