Summary
Ryan Latture is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of experience applying optimization, ML, and uncertainty quantification to high-stakes scientific problems. He currently tunes large-language models at Google and previously built optimization and ML systems to guide costly materials experiments at Citrine Informatics, where his work included a patented featurization method and an algorithm that improved experiment suggestions by 100x. He holds a PhD in Materials from UC Santa Barbara and blends deep domain expertise with practical engineering, shipping production software used by major companies like Boeing and BASF. Outside work he’s the sole developer of Celerie, a privacy-focused iOS calorie counter that uses SwiftUI, Combine, and CloudKit—an example of his habit of turning research-grade methods into polished consumer tools.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Materials, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Materials at UC Santa Barbara
Bachelor of Science - BS Materials Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Materials Science at University of Tennessee, Knoxville