Ryan Kosko
Software Engineering Manager at Yelp
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Kosko is a pragmatic software engineering manager with 8 years of experience building and operating backend systems, ML pipelines, and internal tools at scale across companies like Yelp and Tesla. Based in San Diego, he has led globally distributed engineering teams, shipped production RAG/LLM knowledge platforms and GraphQL corporate APIs, and has a strong hands-on background in Python, GCP, SQL/NoSQL, and model-driven automation. He’s delivered rapid, impactful projects—from migrating phone systems to VoIP with Twilio to training a 97% accurate ticket-classification neural net—while also driving planning, metrics, and cross-functional alignment. Known for turning operational pain points into automated solutions, he blends technical depth with people leadership to accelerate remote-first teams.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Davenport UniversityBachelor of Arts (B.A.), Interdisciplinary Social Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Interdisciplinary Social Science at Michigan State University
Github Skills (38)
home-assistant10
electron9
typescript9
jekyll9
macos8
documentation8
editor8
android8
windows8
ios8
visual-studio-code8
microsoft8
mobile7
django7
python7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
koskorya/Coyote-Vision
Jan 2020 - Oct 2021
Face classification and security feature to lock your machine
Contributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 9 months
classificationsecurity
koskorya/StreakForCashAutomation
Sep 2018 - Aug 2019
Contributions:16 pushes in 10 months
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