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Ryan specializes in composable commerce, revenue\-generating systems, analytics, and end\-to\-end product delivery, taking ownership from product decisions through technical implementation, tooling, and team enablement\. At Sommsation, he helped evolve the business from virtual wine tastings during the COVID pandemic into a multi\-channel marketplace serving more than 120 wineries and more than 60 sommeliers, with virtual tastings and nationwide in\-person events including Super Bowl and Art Basel activations\. He led parallel engineering streams, owned company\-wide analytics, and delivered an in\-house affiliate program that replaced third\-party tooling to reduce costs and improve extensibility\. Earlier, Ryan built healthcare applications, FHIR\-compliant APIs, GraphQL integration tests, and automated end\-to\-end testing at CareCloud developed scalable web and mobile products at TRIM and began his career in municipal IT at the City of Pembroke Pines\. Ryan holds a B\.S\. in Information Technology from Florida International University and completed Ironhack Miami’s full\-time MEAN\-stack program\. ## Services - Technical Support - IT Operations - Customer Relationship Management \(CRM\) - Mass Email Marketing - Email Management - Email Strategy - E\-Commerce - Email Marketing - API Development - System Integration - Architectural Project Management - E\-commerce Optimization - Node\.js - ContentStack - Google Analytics - Search Engine Optimization \(SEO\) - Klaviyo - Front\-end Development - Software Development - Project Management - NestJS - Apollo GraphQL - Marketing - Responsive Web Design - Test Automation - Social Networking - Integration Testing - Product Management - Microsoft Office - SQL ## Highlights - Helped scale Sommsation from virtual wine tastings during the COVID pandemic into a launched multi\-channel wine marketplace serving more than 120 wineries and more than 60 sommeliers\. - Led two parallel Sommsation engineering streams, each with three to five engineers and dedicated QA, across Angular and React stacks\. - Owned Sommsation’s in\-house affiliate program from data model and UI to tracking and ambassador onboarding, replacing third\-party tooling to reduce costs and improve extensibility\. - Focused on revenue\-generating wine\-club and ambassador or affiliate features, including end\-to\-end sales tooling shipped in two months\. - Owned company\-wide analytics across Google Analytics, PostHog, and Klaviyo, defining event schemas and data\-layer design for funnel, checkout, personalization, and campaign measurement\. - Implemented AfterShip and Klaviyo shipment\-notification workflows to keep customers informed and engaged after purchase\. - Served as Sommsation’s subject\-matter expert for Contentstack, Klaviyo, and Cloudinary, scaling dynamic\-content and composable solutions for Product, Design, and Marketing\. - Established foundational architecture for Sommsation’s platform, managed the core monorepo’s non\-infrastructure code, and became de facto owner of core services\. - Translated Figma designs into modular Contentstack content models and scalable production frontend components\. - Built and maintained CareCloud API integration tests using Node\.js, Jest, Joi, Frisby\.js, Apollo GraphQL, and CircleCI\. - Developed CareCloud behavior\-driven end\-to\-end test suites with Selenium, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, Gherkin, Mocha, Chai, and CircleCI\. - Built FHIR\-compliant APIs, middleware, and business\-process workflows for CareCloud’s microservice architecture using Golang, Netflix Conductor, Node\.js, GraphQL, JSON, and YAML\. - Helped build CareCloud’s workflow\-driven Scheduler application for medical practice management and electronic health\-record software using FHIR v3, React, and GraphQL\. - Tested, deployed, and maintained APIs and microservices at TRIM using TypeScript, Docker, Node\.js, Golang, and Heroku\. - Deployed Slack chatbots for sprint retrospectives and co\-working\-space requests, including package\-delivery notifications and order processing, using TypeScript, Botkit, and Nexudus\. - Set up an 18\-machine Windows computer\-literacy lab and 3D printer for the South West Focal Point Senior Center while working for the City of Pembroke Pines\. - Managed City Center video\-surveillance and card\-access infrastructure with Identiv ICPAM and Cisco VSOM, and assisted the Pembroke Pines Police Department with video\-evidence retrieval and documentation\. - Earned second place at the June 2018 Ironhack Miami Full Stack Web Development Hack Show for CauseConnect\. - Completed Ironhack Miami’s full\-time, 400\-plus\-hour MEAN\-stack web\-development program from April through June 2018\. - Received a Certificate of Completion for CXD\-210I XenApp and XenDesktop 7\.1 Administration training in January 2018\. - Co\-produced and engineered the Miami Hustle Series Podcast, which interviewed close to 50 businesses, founders, and marketers\. ## Experience - **Health and well\-being at Career Break** (2026\-03\-01–2026\-04\-01) — After a 5\+ years building Sommsation I took some time to reset, teavel, and clarify my next chapter before pursuing my next product/engineering leadership role\. - **Engineering Program Manager at Sommsation** (2022\-11\-01–2026\-02\-01) — Reported directly to the CTO and extended executive leadership \(SVP Marketing & eCommerce, VP Design & Creative, SVP Digital Product\) to align engineering with business strategy, with a focus on composable commerce and domain‑driven architecture\. Supported Sommsation’s technical evolution from a digital experience platform into a multi‑channel wine marketplace, powering virtual tastings, nationwide in‑person events \(including Super Bowl and Art Basel activations\), and a portfolio that has grown to over 120 wineries and featured in coverage by Forbes, Surface Magazine and Wine Enthusiast\. Most recently led two parallel engineering streams with 3–5 engineers plus dedicated QA per project, balancing Angular and React stacks while keeping Contentstack at the center as the shared content platform\. Owned company‑wide analytics across Google Analytics, PostHog, and Klaviyo, defining event schemas and data‑layer design so leadership and marketing could reliably track funnels, checkout behav - **Full Stack Software Engineer at Eldridge Industries** (2020\-09\-01–2022\-11\-01) — First engineering hire and founding full‑stack developer for Sommsation \(initially via Eldridge, later as a direct employee\), serving as right hand to the CTO from inception through multiple product evolutions\. Contributed across the company's entire arc, helping Sommsation transition from early virtual tastings during the COVID pandemic into a launched marketplace powering curated in‑person experiences around the country\. Earned expanding ownership, autonomy and executive‑level trust by stepping outside of my tech focused scope to support team members and fill gaps across product and operations\. Managed the core monorepo’s non‑infrastructure code, establishing the foundational architecture for the Sommsation platform and becoming de facto owner of core services\. Worked directly with Product and Design leadership to translate Figma designs into modular Contentstack content models and performant frontend components that were scalable in production\. - **Full Stack Software Engineer at T R I M** (2020\-02\-01–2020\-05\-01) — Responsible for testing, deploying and maintaining new APIs and micro\-services for an inherited codebase for a client using TypeScript, Docker, Node\.js, Golang, and Heroku\. Deployed Slack chatbots to manage sprint retrospectives, and handle requests for co\-working spaces like package delivery notifications and order processing using TypeScript, Microsoft's Botkit framework, and the Nexudus co\-working platform\. Filled Quality Assurance roles, managed sprints, wrote technical documentation, and implemented testing infrastructure\. Used Github and Gitlab for repository storage, container registry, and CICD as well as Heroku for the deployment of applications\. Asana for story documentation, project management, and Harvest for transparent, client\-facing, time tracking, and billing\. - **Software Engineer II at CareCloud** (2019\-09\-01–2020\-02\-01) — Worked with Product Managers to translate our Designers' Invision UX designs into an elegant, workflow\-driven, Scheduler application for CareCloud's next\-generation Medical Practice Management/Electronic Health records software using the FHIR v3 Specification, React and GraphQL\. • Previously built production\-ready, FHIR compliant APIs, middleware, and business process management workflows for a microservice architecture using Golang, Netflix's Conductor, Node\.js, GraphQL, JSON and YAML\. - **Software Engineer at CareCloud** (2018\-07\-01–2019\-09\-01) — Solely responsible for building and maintaining a growing suite of API integration tests using Node\.js, Jest, Joi, Frisby\.js, Apollo GraphQL and CircleCi for CI/CD\. • Wrote automated, end to end test suites for behavior\-driven development using CircleCi, Selenium, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, Gherkin, Mocha, and Chai\. • Agile Practices of Software Development: Scrum and Kanban using Atlassian Jira, Team Communication and Collaboration using Slack, Goole Hangouts, and VSCode Live Share and GitHub for code reviews, repository storage, and open source projects\. - **Full Stack Web Development \- MongoDB, Express\.js, Angular 2, Node\.js, HTML and CSS at Ironhack** (2018\-04\-01–2018\-06\-01) — Ironhack's curriculum was over 400 hours focused on introducing JavaScript best practices, exposure to development testing and different agile methodologies\. • The core of the curriculum was JavaScript / Typescript using the MEAN stack: MongoDB, Express\.js, Angular 2, and Node\.js It set me on the path to where I am today, and I am happy to answer any questions about my experience\. • Attended the Full\-Time April \- June 2018 Full Stack Web Development cohort\. • Awarded: 2nd place in the June 2018 Ironhack Miami Full Stack Web Development Hack show for our web app, CauseConnect\. - **Co\-Producer / Audio Engineer at Miami Hustle Series Podcast** (2016\-10\-01–2018\-01\-01) — → Miami Hustle Series was a podcast where we interviewed entrepreneurs, covered business stories, and explored the entrepreneurial community of Miami, Florida\. → We interviewed close to 50 businesses, founders, and marketers\. → Responsibilities included editing audio recordings of interviews, recording and editing ads for sponsors, and composing write\-ups on the Miami Hustle Series website to promote the interviewees and their businesses\. → Software: Pro Tools and Ableton Live - **Campus Ambassador at Postmates** (2016\-08\-01–2016\-12\-01) — → Worked alongside campus recreation facilities, groups and organizations to promote Postmates services\. → Put together audio visual presentations targeted at relevant campus organizations and events\. → Coordinated successful promotional events on and around the FIU campus\. → Maximized social media opportunities to create a credible word of mouth\. - **Help Desk Technician II at City of Pembroke Pines** (2016\-03\-01–2018\-03\-01) — Provided onsite and remote technical support for incoming tickets to the Technology Services Department related to hardware and software used by City of Pembroke Pines employees across various departments including but not limited to Fire & Police, Utilities & Public Works, Parks & Recreation, Human Resources, Transportation Authority, Finance, Media & Production, Planning & Zoning, Building, and Event Management and City Administration\. • Managed and organized the indoor and outdoor video surveillance and card access infrastructure for the City of Pembroke Pines City Center by utilizing both Identiv Connected Physical Access Manager \(ICPAM\) as well as Cisco Video Surveillance Operations Manager \(VSOM\)\. • Assisted the Pembroke Pines Police Department in the retrieval and documentation of crucial video surveillance evidence\. • Solely responsible for setting up a computer literacy training lab composed of eighteen Windows machines and a 3D printer for the South West Focal Point Se - **Courier at Postmates** (2015\-08\-01–2016\-12\-01) — → Delivered food to Postmates customers in a timely manner\. - **Director of Marketing and Social Media at American Cancer Society** (2015\-05\-01–2016\-04\-01) — → Led a team of committee members responsible for social media marketing and outreach, re\-branding the image of our local organization and organizing fundraising events year round\. → Developed, communicated, and implemented strategies to increase on\-campus awareness and encouraged organizational involvement in FIU’s Relay for Life\. → Maintained relationships with and served as a primary contact for decision\-makers at media outlets and other organizations with broad reach\. - **Retail Sales Associate at Hurley** (2015\-05\-01–2015\-08\-01) — → Assisted in the training of incoming sales associates\. → Prepared merchandise for display and assisted in physical inventory processing\. → Assisted customers with purchase decisions\. - **Office Tech Support, Website Developer & Sales Specialist at Medina Baking & Powder Products** (2013\-05\-01–2016\-08\-01) — → Had the responsibility of introducing new employees to the work environment through on the job training over the course of three months\. → Updated and maintained product supplies and pricing information on the company database to ensure that customers received regularly updated information\. → Provided technical support for e\-mail, network connectivity, telecommunications, peripheral equipment, computer maintenance and software installation\. → Set up and handled incoming mail and organized office filing systems\. → Maintained office scheduling and event calendars\. → Coordinated the flow of internal and external shipments of company products\. ## Education - Web Development — Noble Work Foundation (2018\-01\-01–2022\-12\-01) - Front End Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering — freeCodeCamp (2017\-01\-01–2018\-12\-01) - MEAN Stack Web Development, MongoDB, Express\.js, Angular 2, and Node\.js — Ironhack (2018\-01\-01–2018\-01\-01) - Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management — edX (2017\-01\-01–2018\-01\-01) - Bachelor’s Degree, Information Technology — Florida International University (2012\-01\-01–2016\-01\-01) - High School Diploma, Computer / Information Technology Administration and Management — Christopher Columbus High School (2008\-08\-01–2012\-05\-01) ## FAQ ### What does Ryan do? Ryan is a full\-stack product and software engineering leader focused on composable commerce, analytics, revenue systems, and user\-focused application design\. He is currently exploring product or engineering leadership opportunities following his most recent work at Sommsation\. ### What are Ryan’s core product and engineering strengths? Ryan’s strengths include end\-to\-end ownership across product decisions, technical implementation, tooling, and team enablement\. He evaluates build\-versus\-buy tradeoffs, leads migrations from third\-party platforms to custom solutions, preserves critical user workflows and backward compatibility during migrations, and brings sales, marketing, and creative stakeholders into technical grooming while maintaining product focus\. ### What was Ryan’s role at Sommsation? Ryan worked at Sommsation for more than five years, first as the founding full\-stack developer through Eldridge Industries and later directly at Sommsation as an Engineering Program Manager\. He helped the company evolve from virtual tastings during the COVID pandemic into a launched multi\-channel wine marketplace serving more than 120 wineries and more than 60 sommeliers, supporting virtual tastings and nationwide in\-person experiences, including Super Bowl and Art Basel activations\. Sommsation has been featured by Forbes, Surface Magazine, and Wine Enthusiast\. ### What did Ryan accomplish as a founding engineer for Sommsation through Eldridge Industries? As Sommsation’s founding full\-stack developer and first engineering hire, Ryan served as the CTO’s right hand from inception through multiple product evolutions\. He managed the core monorepo’s non\-infrastructure code, established foundational platform architecture, and became the de facto owner of core services\. He also translated Figma designs with Product and Design leadership into modular Contentstack models and scalable, performant frontend components, while supporting product and operations beyond his technical scope\. ### What did Ryan do as Engineering Program Manager at Sommsation? Ryan reported to Sommsation’s CTO and extended executive leadership, including the SVP of Marketing & eCommerce, VP of Design & Creative, and SVP of Digital Product, to align engineering with business strategy\. He led two parallel engineering streams with three to five engineers and dedicated QA on each project, balancing Angular and React stacks with Contentstack as the shared content platform\. ### How did Ryan contribute to Sommsation’s revenue systems? Ryan owned product and technical implementation for Sommsation’s in\-house affiliate program, including its data model, UI, tracking, and ambassador onboarding at launch\. The migration from third\-party affiliate tooling reduced costs and improved extensibility, creating a core revenue channel\. He also focused on wine\-club and ambassador or affiliate features and shipped end\-to\-end sales tooling in two months\. ### What analytics, commerce, and marketing\-platform work did Ryan lead at Sommsation? Ryan owned company\-wide analytics across Google Analytics, PostHog, and Klaviyo\. He defined event schemas and data\-layer design so leadership and marketing could track funnels, checkout behavior, personalization, and campaign impact\. As Sommsation’s subject\-matter expert for Contentstack, Klaviyo, and Cloudinary, he proposed, implemented, and scaled dynamic\-content and composable platform solutions for Product, Design, and Marketing\. He also implemented shipment and notification workflows integrating AfterShip with Klaviyo flows to inform and engage customers after purchase\. ### What did Ryan do as a Software Engineer at CareCloud? At CareCloud, Ryan built and maintained a growing suite of API integration tests using Node\.js, Jest, Joi, Frisby\.js, Apollo GraphQL, and CircleCI\. He also developed automated, behavior\-driven end\-to\-end test suites using CircleCI, Selenium, WebDriverIO, Cucumber, Gherkin, Mocha, and Chai\. ### What did Ryan do as a Software Engineer II at CareCloud? As a Software Engineer II at CareCloud, Ryan worked with product managers to turn InVision UX designs into a workflow\-driven Scheduler application for next\-generation medical practice management and electronic health\-record software\. The application used the FHIR v3 specification, React, and GraphQL\. He had previously built production\-ready FHIR\-compliant APIs, middleware, and business\-process workflows for a microservice architecture using Golang, Netflix Conductor, Node\.js, GraphQL, JSON, and YAML\. ### What did Ryan do at TRIM? At TRIM, Ryan tested, deployed, and maintained APIs and microservices in an inherited client codebase using TypeScript, Docker, Node\.js, Golang, and Heroku\. He deployed Slack chatbots for sprint retrospectives and co\-working\-space requests such as package\-delivery notifications and order processing using TypeScript, Microsoft Botkit, and Nexudus\. Ryan also filled QA roles, managed sprints, wrote technical documentation, implemented testing infrastructure, and used GitHub, GitLab, CI/CD, Asana, and Harvest for delivery, project management, and transparent client\-facing time tracking and billing\. ### What did Ryan do at the City of Pembroke Pines? Ryan began his IT career as a Help Desk Technician II for the City of Pembroke Pines\. He provided onsite and remote support across City departments managed City Center video\-surveillance and card\-access infrastructure with Identiv ICPAM and Cisco VSOM and helped the Police Department retrieve and document video evidence\. He independently set up an 18\-machine Windows computer\-literacy lab and 3D printer for the South West Focal Point Senior Center, and helped set up the Emergency Operations & Training Center at the new City Hall\. ### What Citrix training did Ryan complete? Ryan completed Citrix instructor Ronald Warsaski’s CXD\-210I XenApp and XenDesktop 7\.1 Administration training from January 8 through January 11, 2018, receiving a Certificate of Completion\. ### What did Ryan study at Ironhack? Ryan completed Ironhack Miami’s full\-time Full Stack Web Development cohort from April through June 2018\. The more than 400\-hour curriculum covered JavaScript and TypeScript best practices, testing, agile methodologies, and the MEAN stack: MongoDB, Express\.js, Angular 2, and Node\.js\. Ryan’s team earned second place in Ironhack Miami’s June 2018 Full Stack Web Development Hack Show for the web application CauseConnect\. ### What is Ryan’s education and professional training background? Ryan holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology from Florida International University\. He also completed freeCodeCamp’s Front End Development Certification in Computer Software Engineering, studied Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management through edX, studied Web Development through Noble Work Foundation, and earned a high school diploma in Computer/Information Technology Administration and Management from Christopher Columbus High School\. ### What technologies does Ryan use? Ryan has worked with JavaScript, TypeScript, Node\.js, Express\.js, NestJS, Next\.js, React, Angular, MongoDB, SQL, Golang, GraphQL, Apollo GraphQL, microservices, middleware, Docker, NX, AWS, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, responsive web design, and API development and system integration\. His testing experience includes Jest, Mocha, end\-to\-end testing, integration testing, test automation, and QA automation\. ### What business and operational areas does Ryan work across? Ryan’s product, commerce, and marketing experience includes e\-commerce optimization, Contentstack, Klaviyo, Google Analytics, SEO, CRM, email marketing, mass email marketing, email strategy and management, product management, project management, architectural project management, and marketing technology\. He also has experience in technical support, IT operations, customer service, leadership, training, team building, public speaking, business relationship management, and Spanish\. ### What was Ryan’s work with the Miami Hustle Series Podcast? Ryan served as co\-producer and audio engineer for the Miami Hustle Series Podcast, which interviewed entrepreneurs and covered Miami’s entrepreneurial community\. The podcast interviewed close to 50 businesses, founders, and marketers\. Ryan edited interview audio, recorded and edited sponsor advertisements, wrote website promotion for interviewees and their businesses, and used Pro Tools and Ableton Live\. ### What earlier customer, marketing, and operations experience does Ryan have? At Medina Baking & Powder Products, Ryan trained new employees over three months, maintained product supplies and pricing information in the company database, provided technical support for email, networks, telecommunications, peripherals, computer maintenance, and software installation, and handled mail, filing, calendars, and product shipments\. He also held customer\-facing and campus roles: as a Postmates Courier, he delivered food to customers as a Postmates Campus Ambassador, he promoted services through campus partnerships, audiovisual presentations, events, and social media at Hurley, he trained incoming associates, prepared merchandise, processed inventory, and assisted customers\. At the American Cancer Society, Ryan led committee members responsible for social\-media marketing, outreach, rebranding, fundraising events, campus awareness, and media relationships for FIU’s Relay for Life\. ### Why did Ryan take a career break? After more than five years building Sommsation, Ryan took a career break focused on health and well\-being, travel, and clarifying his next chapter before pursuing his next product or engineering leadership role\. ### How can someone contact Ryan? Ryan can be reached at \[contact removed\]\. ## Links - LinkedIn: https://www\.linkedin\.com/in/ryancraigmartin