About

Ryan Smits is a Senior Director of Engineering at ClimateAI with over 20 years of experience in engineering and engineering management. He is a builder at heart, partnering with product and engineering teams from concept through deployment. Ryan has a passion for building high-performing, healthy team culture with purpose, drive, and shared values. He thrives in fast-paced environments while balancing the long-term needs of the business. Ryan's strengths lie in his agile mentality to drive prioritization with shifting product and engineering needs. He is a team builder with an understanding of individual contributor growth, motivations, and autonomy. Ryan has experience ranging from small-scale startups to enterprise work environments. Currently, Ryan is the Director of Software Engineering at flyhomes. In his previous role as Sr. Manager, Software Engineering at tune, he led two engineering teams focused on measurement and data flow. Ryan worked cross-functionally with product management, support, marketing, and account management teams to prioritize client needs. Ryan is also the co-founder of zCrowd, an enterprise crowdsourcing platform. He managed the team and development practices, owned technical design, architecture, agile process, and support. Ryan led the team to migrate the zCrowd platform from the initial MVP product to a microservice architecture with a focus on devops, scalability, idempotency, and immutable server deployments. He shifted operational thinking from hands-on administration to proactive devops focused deployments and monitoring. Ryan's tech stack includes Senior Software Engineer, AWS, product manager, DevOps, Ansible, MongoDB, Microservices, Web, Python, Django, and Java. With his relevant experience of 20.70 years, Ryan is a seasoned professional who can lead engineering teams to success.