Ryan Randels ©

• Landed 5 clients to implement and optimize modern workflows and agentic AI for various business functions including backoffice admin, HR, SEO and automated content generation pipelines, financial reporting & forecast modeling, legal and compliance yielding > 80% average workforce time savings

• Established proficiency in AI-assisted development workflows (Claude Code & Cursor) yielding 60% increase in MVP product delivery cycle—provided consultation for AI implementation into high-performing development teams

• Implemented HIPAA-compliant systems and workflows for in-home healthcare agency

• Built suite of tools for business development, marketing & SEO automation, and GTM strategy—yielding 5.5x time to market increase with a 87% cost reduction

• Built suite of tools for automated financial modeling and domain-specific data aggregation to enrich investment opportunity qualification uncovering new investment opportunities in realtime

• Led data-driven pilot—a "Rank & Rent" project where agentic-AI market research, competitive categorization, and automated content generated site launch in under 30 days

• Led engineering + agency operations, coordinating 20+ active sprints across clients and in-house initiatives for Vault Apps, a private equity firm that acquires, partners with, and scales SaaS and mobile-first app businesses

• Hired, managed and mentored 14-person cross-functional team, instilling data-first decision-making, inclusive and feedback-driven leadership, and culture of continuous delivery and recovery—> 90% talent retention over 24mo

• Scaled engineering throughput 2x sustainably in 6 mo. driving 100% agency revenue growth

• Managed fully distributed, follow-the-sun Agile engineering org; implemented an async-first stack (ClickUp, Zoom, Loom, Slack) that worked to eliminate hand-off lag and preserved sprint capacity

• Negotiated & managed all engineering contracts, $1.5M/yr blended spend (internal team + contract talent) while scaling capacity on demand and maintaining quality-first & cost-effective mindset

• Implemented automated and AI-driven mindset so executive team could focus on strategic direction, reducing administrative task time by 65%

• Designed per-asset live unit economics dashboards—conversion funnels, LTV:CAC, MRR—providing historical and forecasted revenue & expense modeling, allowing real-time operational and investment decisions

• Directed 17 concurrent SaaS + mobile products (mix of owned, partner and client IP)

• Built data-driven investment cases to drive ROI—modeling NPV, IRR and payback—pitched and secured budget allocation, lifting average ARR +77%

• Responsible for each asset's LEAN method product feedback cycle yielding continuous sprintly-deliveries

• Coached partner founders on growth levers—Unit economics, top of funnel, conversion funnels, pricing tests, retention, ASO & channel mix—boosting paid customer conversion ~150%, reducing churn ~30% across portfolio

• Lead backend developer and cross-functional product manager serving 1,300 SMB to Enterprise customers

• Implemented multi-tier pricing structure driving ~42% ARR growth

• Owned entire server-side stack powering both a mobile app and admin web portal behind a single, scalable API

• Processed 1M+ mission-critical transactions daily while keeping p95 latency low and costs predictable

• Architected & executed 2-year re-platform to AWS EKS + legacy codebase migration with zero data loss and over 90% legacy customer retention

• Built out CI/CD practices and automated observability (Docker, Drone, GitHub Actions, Terraform/Ansible, Prometheus/Grafana), cutting deploy time 70% and enabling same-minute rollbacks

• Maintained 99.99% uptime—< 5 hours total downtime over 4 years

• Stack: Laravel (PHP), Postgres, MySQL, Redis, React, React Native, AWS, Docker, Grafana

• Lead backend and frontend web app developer for multiple industry-disruptive mobile application projects

• Stack: Laravel (PHP), Node.js, TypeScript, Vue.js, HTML/CSS, Postgres, Redis, AWS, Docker