Ryan Porter Email & Phone Number

Miami Beach, FL, US

A fun project with great people has become a full-time obsession: Setting up an AI lab focused on R&D for text classifiers, LLM orchestration, and other applications of AI/ML for call center QA. I get to spend every day inventing new classifier model architectures and then implementing and evaluating them. And why limit ourselves to text classifiers when.

The proven team that reliably operated an online store for over a decade that made as much as $64 million per month is available to help you leverage generative AI for real-world business use cases. Do you want to automate a process like identifying GDPR forget-me request emails and managing the followup? Do you need to fine-tune a language model for your.

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

• Continuation of the same role and responsibilities after Tao Group Hospitality acquired Hakkasan Group.
• Transformed a legacy server-based deployment of a mission-critical ticketing system to a serverless architecture.
• Transformed legacy Ruby on Rails checkout system with a traditional payment gateway to a serverless component with a tokenized payment system, eliminating both the storage and processing of cardholder data. For simpler.
• Transformed legacy Ruby on Rails event ticketing web store to an Angular app with a serverless backend. Completely eliminating the scaling problems we had before when some celebrity would post a link to our ticket.
• Transformed legacy ticket checkin system into a React/Next.js app with realtime synchronization through a serverless backend built on AWS Ampify.
• Implemented a conversational agent for operators of the ticketing system based on the OpenAI API that used function calling to provide live system metrics and performance charts.

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

• Continuation and expansion of existing role after Hakkasan acquired Angel Management Group. Responsible for all software development, web and mobile development, and data analysis. Manages as many as seven separate.
• Personally built the company's in-house event ticket sale and barcode redemption system that has generated over $150,000,000 in revenue as of April 2021.
• Personally built a cloud-based enterprise data warehouse (EDW) using open-source tools.
• Personally built the specialized reservation and guest list management system that is used at all of the company's night clubs, a system that processes millions of dollars in reservation revenue per month.
• Designed and managed the implementation and rollout of a visual table map for night club reservations based on a portable HTML5 architecture.
• Established standard operating procedures and implemented workflows and screens in JIRA to enable them for managing the engineering department, web team, email marketing team, search marketing team, data analysis team.

Winona, Minnesota, US

• Founder of a small software company.
• Built a medical instrumentation product with Win32 and MFC for Windows for the Florida Probe Corporation that is still the company’s core product 20 years later. http://www.floridaprobe.com
• The app includes many innovations that foreshadowed future developments in web technology, such as a resolution-agnostic display system. Today it would be called "responsive design".
• Successfully transferred the project to in-house developers.
• Built a commercial web email application as a Perl CGI script. Brought it to market and sold it to hundreds of customers over several years. Personally handled all development, marketing, and technical support.
• Built an enterprise web mail application using the Java Servlet API and brought it to market.

Continuation and expansion of existing role after Venue Driver was acquired by Angel Management Group. Started a project to build an enterprise data warehouse (EDW) that succeeded. Responsible for CRM, EDW, OLTP, OLAP, SDLC, DevOps, and many other acronyms.

• Responsible for all technology, including software development, web operations, technical hiring, and technical training.
• Developed and operated all of Venue Driver's technology solo for the first two years.
• Built the core Ruby on Rails web application that manages guest lists, VIP reservations and event ticket sales. Built Venue Driver's event ticket sales system, with white-label branding.
• Built a REST API that supports JSON and XML, for use by third-party web sites and mobile applications.
• Built an iOS native application in Objective C for scanning event tickets using iPods with laser barcode scanners.
• Built a Windows Mobile native application in C# for scanning event tickets using Symbol barcode scanners.

US

• The third software developer at 3Dfx when it was a tiny startup in an office park across from what was the Netscape campus at the time. Employee #17. Used Test-Driven Design (TDD) to help perfect the VHDL code for one.
• Worked on automated pixel-accurate unit tests for a software simulator of 3Dfx's first GPU.
• Connected the 3Dfx office to the Internet for the first time. Back when that was not simple.
• Established company email at 3dfx.com. Manually configured Sendmail.