Ryan Nygard
Senior Software Engineer at Blueprint
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Nygard is a senior full-stack engineer with nine years of experience building AI-powered healthcare and SaaS platforms, currently focused on scalable, reliable systems. He’s led stabilization and architecture work for an LLM-driven incident-reporting chatbot (Flask/Python, PostgreSQL, React) that uses vector search and RAG to infer and auto-populate dynamic form fields. Previously promoted from QA automation, he delivered a performant EAV data model for custom patient attributes, built PHI-scrubbing tooling, and authored internal SDKs integrating Salesforce, AWS Bedrock, and Anthropic—bridging data privacy, ML, and developer ergonomics. His QA roots inform a strong testing and reliability mindset applied across backend, frontend, and infra, including SQL optimization when ORMs fall short. Based in Salt Lake City, he enjoys mentoring teams and exploring LLM orchestration and data modeling patterns that simplify complex healthcare workflows.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma General Studies, High School Diploma General Studies at Rigby High SchoolComputer Science, Computer Science at BottegaAssociate's Degree in Business Transfer Finance General, Associate's Degree in Business Transfer Finance General at LDS Business College
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Github Skills (13)
bots6
beautifulsoup6
alembic6
selenium6
webscraping6
webdriver6
python6
environment-variables6
python-requests6
artificial-intelligence1
starcraft1
rapid-development1
rapid1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nygardryan/ProjectZomboidSimpleVaccines
Oct 2022 - Sep 2024
This is a mod that adds vaccines into Project Zomboid, they give the player a chance to heal from the zombie virus
Contributions:16 PRs, 21 pushes, 7 branches in 1 year 10 months
nygardryan/timeManager
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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