Ryan Marten
Founding Engineer at South Park Commons
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Marten is an AI researcher and software engineer with a decade of experience building vision and learning systems and shipping production software from startups to research labs. Currently at Laude Institute after founding and scaling early technical efforts at Bespoke Labs and Simplicit AI, he blends hands-on engineering with research rigor gained from roles at AI2, MIT CSAIL, and Oxford. His academic work includes creating GRIT, a benchmark for evaluating general vision models, and teaching graduate courses in deep learning and computer vision. Comfortable across the stack, he has production experience with Docker, AWS, and instrumentation systems and a track record of turning research ideas into deployable tools. Based in San Francisco, he’s as likely to be debugging model calibration as he is out on a long run — a habit that fuels his persistence and focus. Colleagues describe him as a builder who watches machines learn and steers that curiosity toward practical, generalizable solutions.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Extracurricular Advanced Mathematics, Extracurricular Advanced Mathematics at Russian School of MathematicsCreative Destruction Lab Student, Creative Destruction Lab Student at University of Toronto - Rotman School of ManagementBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of TorontoBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Toronto - University of Trinity CollegeMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignWestwood High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (137)
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python10
datasets10
deep-learning10
vertex-ai10
prompt10
llmops10
fine-tuning10
golang10
synthetic-data10
visual-question-answering10
reasoning10
git10
llama10
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
RyanMarten/delicountr
Jun 2016 - Mar 2020
Contributions:63 commits, 14 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 years 10 months
bespokelabsai/curator
Nov 2024 - Mar 2025
Synthetic data curation for post-training and structured data extraction
Contributions:3 releases, 162 reviews, 159 PRs in 4 months
agentsdeep-learningfine-tuninginstruction-tuningllm
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