Ryan Koval
Distributed Systems Engineer at NVIDIA
Dallas, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Koval is a distributed systems engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable backend platforms and leading engineering teams across startups and larger tech firms. He has held engineering and leadership roles at Guilded (acquired by Roblox) and Roblox, and now works at NVIDIA while running his own fractional CTO and software services firm, End to End Productions. Ryan combines hands-on systems design with entrepreneurial instincts—cofounding startups and briefly serving as CTO for consumer-facing ventures—while maintaining a steady consulting practice. Based in Dallas, he brings a track record of shipping production systems at scale, mentoring teams, and bridging product needs with technical execution. Outside of corporate roles he curates multiple personal sites (ryankoval.com, resume.ryankoval.com, ryankoval.pizza), reflecting a pragmatic, maker-oriented approach to his public technical footprint.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Certified ScrumMaster TrainingBachelor of Science Computer Science, Bachelor of Science Computer Science at Southern Methodist University
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Github Skills (162)
ui-components10
chromeless10
lua10
golang10
image-cropper10
alfred10
go10
file-explorer10
vue-component10
vue10
cropper10
jest-environment10
neovim-plugin10
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neovim10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rkoval/order-me-pizza
Mar 2016 - Jan 2023
Contributions:45 commits, 5 PRs, 19 pushes in 6 years 10 months
abilitypizza-deliverynodejspizzamongodb
rkoval/share-to-clipboard-url
Jul 2020 - Oct 2025
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 3 months
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