Ryan is a seasoned engineering leader that has built teams in ad tech, networking and data science. He has successfully designed and scaled products with large infrastructures, and is responsible for scaling at SureDone. He's written software used by Facebook, Disney, Akamai, and neuroscientists at Caltech, MIT, Brown and NYU.Ryan is responsible for SureDone’s 3rd generation architecture. He moved the company from physical data centers onto AWS, restructuring DevOps and improving system latency and reducing downtime by 10x. He currently leads User Interface, infrastructure, DevOps, and AI projects.

Ryan’s goal as a consultant is to be a force multiplier for clients looking move ideas forward quickly. He uses a first-principles design approach and chooses technology to fit the problem, rather than the other way around.During this period, Ryan lead product design and development for a secure electronic health system for networks of international health clinics. The system captures all stages of patient interaction from registration and history, through triage and physical exam, diagnosis, decision support AI, prescriptions, transfers, and analytics for individual patients, clinics and entire networks.Ryan also lead product design and development for a fitness company providing personalized, intelligent challenges based on customers’ Fitbit data, paired with equipment and nutrition products to help them meet their goals. Designed and implemented challenge AI, internal growth analytics systems and business intelligence.Additionally, Ryan lead product design and development for a anti-phishing product prototype for a major U.S. cybersecurity firm in the wake of the 2016 election and served as an advisor for an API design project at a major NYC recruiting firm.

Ryan leads the design and development of the Walking Doctors health platform and guided the system from prototype to trials to live patients. Walking Doctors is software providers actually enjoy using, reducing time spent on data entry and preventing mistakes that can cost lives. This stand-out experience requires tackling a number of difficult design challenges from offering world class security and reliability to fully modern user experience design to easy localization for different international markets to tools for providers to get more value from their data.

As CTO at Decisive, Ryan builds the technology and the team that power billions of real time decisions every day. Decisive makes advertisers more effective at finding people who want their products and makes the web better for people by not showing them ads for things they don't want.Decisive technology centers around distributed systems that handle large streams of real-time data (significantly larger than the Twitter firehose), make economic decisions about that data, and synchronize the results very quickly across the system.Decisive engineering focuses on making systems simple, observable and robust. The team favors deep understanding of the UNIX ecosystem and exercises wisdom about where to use mature tools and where to push boundaries with new technology.

Opani is a collaborative tool for data insight. Customers from science to social media use our platform to quickly analyze, visualize and share data.

Provided leadership up and down the technology stack, including kernel level networking and data services, systems architecture, web application design and client side javascript. Contributed to business strategy, user experience design, product/project management and operations.

Responsible for product web interface, appliance software update system, build, production, test systems and internal web apps for product monitoring and rollout. Work spanning kernel/userspace/browser. Built appliance platform to scale feature development as we grew the team.

Development infrastructure, wiki, trac, svn, build system, production system, web interface, test suites.

Development of Maxnet, a scalable, fair alternative to TCP. Implemented in the Linux kernel. Published in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Networking, 2005, Malaysia.

Xbox, PS2, Gamecube developer. Shrek Super Party: developed many physics-based minigames (including AI), phoneme animation system for the Magic Mirror (narrator), move selection "dice roll" system (collision based).