Summary
Ryan Barnes is an experienced software engineer with 11 years building maintainable, high-performance systems across startups and large enterprises, currently contributing to Unwrap.ai from Santa Barbara. He brings a rare blend of scientific rigor and production engineering shaped by a PhD in Physical Chemistry and prior roles at Amazon and FLIR where he led teams, introduced automated testing and achieved 100–1000x speedups with GPU/CPU image processing. Comfortable across the stack, Ryan has delivered end-to-end projects on tight timelines and mentored colleagues to raise code quality and delivery practices. His background as a maker, educator, and published graduate researcher gives him a knack for translating complex scientific problems into robust software solutions. Known as an enthusiastic team player and deep creative thinker, he prefers pragmatic designs that scale and are easy to maintain. Based in Santa Barbara, he blends academic depth with product-focused engineering to tackle challenging technical problems.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Chemistry, Bachelor's degree, Chemistry at California State University-Chico
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Physical Chemistry at UC Santa Barbara