Ryan Michael Email & Phone Number

Durham, North Carolina, United States

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Santa Clara, California, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

As VP of Engineering I, collaborate daily with the CEO and VP of Product to chart and execute Kaskada’s strategic vision. My primary responsibility is to build and manage an agile and high-performance engineering organization while collaborating on sales, marketing, and strategic initiatives.

Seattle, Washington, Us

As Kaskada’s 4th hire, I co-created the core technology and initial implementation, which resulted in four patents covering innovative approaches to building ML models from real-time data.Recent projects have included:- A time-traveling query language with supporting compiler, type checker- A distributed query runtime for executing both analytic and bulk computations. - Computation state snapshotting to support incrementalization.- Data ingestion, denormalization, export, and persistence pipelines.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Helped guide ReturnPath’s technical roadmap while founding a cross-functional team focused on quickly bringing AI-backed products to market.- Helped design, implement and evangelize engineering standards and methodologies as member of ReturnPath’s “Architecture Council,” with an emphasis on software development standards and data processing infrastructure.- Fostered an environment of continual professional development through mentorship, technology demonstrations, code reviews, and presentations.- Led the design and development of the Dynamic Optimization product suite in collaboration with the Data Science team- Led the design and development of an AI platform consisting of Flink-based stream pre-processing and automated model training, validation, deployment and monitoring.- Led the design and development of a “Customer Event Data” system for ingesting email campaign event streams.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Led a ground-up rewrite of the team's technical stack while managing an unstable legacy system to ensure continuity of service.- Collaborated with the team to redesign a legacy system at the edge of several scalability bottlenecks.- Established a set of system trade-offs expected to increase short-term reliability, buying time to implement the new design.- Surfaced the team’s stability concerns and took ownership of building consensus across leadership, sales, business-development and legal teams that the proposed trade-offs were necessary, feasible, and likely to yield the expected improvements.- Pioneered the use of structured incident response management practices

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Helped redesign and build legacy systems for scalability, performance, and reliability.- Helped build a distributed Golang system to generate a real-time event stream of all changes to millions of email accounts.- Introduced and facilitated the adoption of gRPC and Protocol Buffers to formalize and document internal data structures and APIs.- Extracted legacy functionality into microservices while supporting a public API.- Helped develop Docker-based continuous deployment pipeline before leading the transition to Kubernetes.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Helped advocate for and implement a transition from batch to stream data processing.- Built a real-time email fingerprinting, clustering and anonymization system in Clojure.- Helped lead the transition of data workflows from periodic jobs to data streams.- Prototyped a product recommendation system based on email use patterns.

Boston, Massachusetts, Us

Maintained and improved a large Ruby-On-Rails monolith providing consumer applications to over 3M users.- Prototyped a product recommendation system based on email use patterns- Helped rewrite account signup and deactivation workflows

Brick and Mortar Architecture for a Design/Build firm.- Designed internationally recognized buildings.- Managed multimillion-dollar construction projects and schedules.- Helped develop environmentally sustainable building systems.

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Beda, Architecture

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