Summary
Ryan Haney is a founder and senior software craftsman with over 25 years of experience building and modernizing complex, production-grade systems across media, enterprise SaaS, and startups. He leads Appology, a specification-driven development studio that blends custom full-stack engineering, AI-agentic workflows, and developer tooling to prioritize maintainability and verifiability. Ryan has repeatedly migrated monoliths to cloud-native microservices, improved observability and deployment automation, and integrated AI assistants into engineering and business processes. His background includes architecting broadcast playout systems at NBCUniversal, designing big-data web platforms, and shipping scalable notification and real-time features for large organizations. Based in Tustin, CA, he pairs hands-on implementation with technical authorship and business strategy, often surfacing engineering practices (like spec-as-truth) that are uncommon in fast-moving product teams.
9 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Western High School