Ryan Smith

A Bay Area tech veteran, Ryan Smith brings more than 20 years of product and software engineering experience to his role of leading the engineering team at Side. Prior to Side, Ryan was VP of Software Engineering at LendingClub, where he was responsible for the borrower side of their platform and helped grow their engineering team 4x in his first two years. Ryan has also held previous engineering leadership roles in diverse industries, including Salesforce, PayPal and Cisco. Ryan holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley.