Summary
Adrian Ryan is a Senior Technical Account Manager and former founder with a decade of experience helping startups scale revenue and product through hands-on engineering, customer advocacy, and strategic program design. He has managed multimillion-dollar books of business at Retool and turned a failed POC into his startup’s largest customer while negotiating and renewing high-value contracts at Antithesis. Equally comfortable in code and in the boardroom, he’s contributed to core products in TypeScript, C++, Python, and Rust and built TypeScript APIs and big-data analysis pipelines to improve QA and developer workflows. Adrian’s background in building interactive LMS platforms, running large-scale hackathons, and leading data-driven political studies shows a rare mix of product design, community-building, and rigorous experimentation. He thrives in collaborative, entrepreneurial environments and is especially focused on responsible deployment of ML and emerging systems as they reshape how people learn and work. Outside work he designs indie games and custom RPG campaigns, a creative thread that informs his user-centered approach to product and learning experiences.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Linguistics, Linguistics at Yale University