Ryan Gulden
Principal AI & ML Engineer at CNA Insurance
Romeoville, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Gulden is a Principal AI & ML Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable MLOps and data platform solutions for large financial and insurance enterprises. He progressed from platform engineering roles at Discover to senior and principal AI/ML positions at CNA Insurance, where he focuses on reliable, production-ready ML infrastructure for data scientists and application teams. Ryan combines critical thinking with collaborative leadership to solve complex systems problems and continuously sharpens his skills by experimenting with new technologies in his home network. Based in Romeoville, IL and grounded in a Computer Science degree from Illinois State University, he brings practical, hands-on expertise in platform automation, model deployment, and observability. Outside of work he analyzes stocks and plays and watches sports, a pastime that informs his data-driven approach to problems. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns research and prototypes into dependable, maintainable platforms.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Joliet Catholic AcademyBachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Illinois State University
Github Skills (62)
k3s10
k3d10
kubelet10
k8s10
kubernetes9
storage8
openvpn8
raspberry7
installer7
raspberry-pi6
vscode6
ssh6
docker-container6
devcontainer6
vpn-server6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
rgulden/k3s-raspberry-pi
Nov 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
rgulden/crater-k8s-deploy
Apr 2021 - Mar 2023
Files associated with deploying the opensource Crater project to kubernetes
Contributions:16 releases, 33 commits, 12 PRs in 1 year 11 months
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