Ryan Clark
Staff Software Engineer

Ryan Clark

Frontend engineer with 14+ years of experience building products at scale. Currently leading internationalization platform engineering at Squarespace.

LinkedIn Brooklyn, NY
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Skills

Languages
TypeScript JavaScript SQL HTML CSS
Frontend
React Webpack
Backend & Infrastructure
Node.js Java Spring
Domains
Frontend Product & Platform i18n / l10n SaaS DevEx
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Experience

Staff Software Engineer @ Squarespace
New York, NY
Jan 2025 — Present
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  • Ran an experiment providing GDPR compliance guides for European customers, then handed the product off to the full team for continued iteration
  • Took ownership of the customer-facing onboarding setup guide — a key trial-to-subscription conversion surface — and modernized its frontend and services stack
  • Explored rendering architecture options and built proofs-of-concept that de-risked a 15+ engineer, multi-year international project for downstream teams
  • Helped 3+ engineering teams adopt existing i18n tools instead of building custom platform changes, reducing cross-team dependencies
  • Upgraded core microservice framework and design system dependencies across our team's services and frontend apps, keeping them on supported, secure versions
  • Migrated monitoring to a more robust provider, improving observability across international services
  • Stabilized translation file sizes by decomposing monolithic string files into modules, giving products an off-ramp when they exceeded our localization vendor's capacity
Senior Software Engineer @ Squarespace
New York, NY
June 2018 — Jan 2025
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  • Overhauled the authentication microservice's frontend toolchain to bring it in line with modern development practices
  • Launched conversion experiments on account creation, driving landing-to-trial improvements
  • Presented Japan market rollout learnings to the entire engineering org, distilling lessons from a business-critical expansion into actionable insights for future launches
  • Nominated to drive frontend standards on behalf of the platform org
  • Created a next-generation frontend i18n toolset adopted by nearly all frontend teams, reducing boilerplate and preventing misconfigurations that caused missing translations and crashes
  • Delivered a multilingual microsite for a major marketing campaign on deadline; authored reusable runbooks enabling future launches without dedicated engineering support
  • Streamlined i18n data upgrades from ad-hoc and error-prone to repeatable, reducing friction and risk in keeping locale data current across the platform
  • Architected the company's first-ever localized A/B tests on French and German public-facing homepages
  • Reduced frontend errors org-wide by upgrading TypeScript across the server monorepo from a 2-year-old version, with comprehensive regression testing across unowned code paths
  • Reimplemented the Form block frontend in React to support international customers, replacing a US-centric implementation that created a poor experience for global users
  • Designed and built the greenfield Profiles product (now Contacts) to replace the legacy Customers panel across all sites, architecting the frontend in TypeScript and React with supporting backend contributions; mentored a junior engineer through the build
  • Built the Member Areas experience from scratch on a team of 6–8 engineers, delivering two product iterations in TypeScript and React; navigated a backend migration off GraphQL during development
Senior Software Engineer @ Bombfell
New York, NY
July 2016 — May 2018
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  • Led three engineers to rebuild the Account Dashboard, delivering a modernized experience with a new deployment process, build pipeline, and shared UI component library
  • Rebuilt the internal styling platform used by stylists to curate personalized clothing selections, improving core business workflow efficiency
  • Shipped marketing landing pages and back-office tooling to improve user retention and streamline customer service workflows
Application Engineer @ Vimeo
New York, NY
Mar 2015 — June 2016
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  • Built the first On Demand recommendation engine with extensible scaffolding for future algorithms, expanding Publisher Network reach and configurability
  • Created a side-by-side testing tool to evaluate recommendation algorithms in real time, accelerating iteration on content discovery
Senior Software Engineer @ FactSet Research Systems
Norwalk, CT
June 2011 — Mar 2015
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  • Designed and built a CMS for the third generation of the company's online help application, serving thousands of financial professionals
  • Developed a mass notification system for distributing messages to internal and external audiences based on product subscriptions and targeting criteria
  • Built backup and restore for a client data file store on Apache Cassandra with real-time file monitoring
  • Managed one direct report; completed coursework in management, delegating, and coaching
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Education

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
BS in Computer Science · BS in Biomedical Engineering
2011