About

Ryan Frahm is an Ames-based full stack product engineer known for his expertise in developing Saas and marketplace platforms.

In 2016 he founded Shoppe, an e-commerce startup, that he then successfully scaled to $1 million in annual recurring revenue within nine months.

His notable achievements include spearheading a farmland real estate marketplace, which attracted over $500 million in capital before its acquisition in 2021. He then went on to play a critical role at STRInsights, a startup in the ever-evolving short term rental space, where he built advanced machine learning data pipelines that processed over 1 billion records.

His recent focus has been on re-visiting highly profitable verticals in the e-commerce space, and is planning to launch several customer facing mobile apps in 2024.

Holding a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and an Associate of Science in Computer Science.

Ryan combines technical proficiency with a pragmatic approach to product, technology and team building.