Ryan Croke
Senior Principal at Slalom
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolRyan Croke is a Principal AI Consultant and applied mathematician with a PhD in nonlinear PDEs and over a decade of experience translating advanced math into production-ready AI and data solutions. He has led AI strategy, prototyping, and team scaling across industry and academia—from ChefSteps and Slalom Build to teaching roles at the University of Colorado—combining elegant, lean code with rigorous numerical intuition. Comfortable mentoring and presenting complex ideas, he excels at rapid POCs and codebase evaluations that de-risk AI adoption for organizations. A problem solver who seeks out challenging domains, Ryan pairs a taste for theoretical depth with practical experience in geophysics, defense, and commercial analytics. Notably, his background includes hands-on work in seismic processing and time-series modeling alongside teaching paradoxes and advanced math to gifted students, reflecting both technical breadth and a flair for communication.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Mathematics, MS, Mathematics at University of HoustonPhD, Mathematics, PhD, Mathematics at Colorado State UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mathematics at University of Wisconsin-Madison
English, Spanish, Hebrew
Github Skills (29)
python8
ai8
artificial-intelligence8
claude8
llm7
openai7
autonomous-agents7
agentic-ai7
gpt7
streamlit7
machine-learning6
ai-agent6
data-science6
data-analysis5
developer-tools5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
slalom/ds-notebooks
Apr 2019 - May 2019
Data Science Notebooks
Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 8 pushes in 1 month
data-science
theholymath/theholymath
Dec 2021 - Jan 2026
Contributions:24 pushes in 4 years 1 month
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.