Ryan Paterson
Chief Executive Officer at Self
Fredericksburg, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Paterson is a seasoned technology executive and former Marine officer with over three decades of experience building and transitioning advanced information systems for defense and civilian customers. He founded and grew IST Research into a company that deployed cutting-edge decision-support systems in some of the most remote and contested environments, exiting via sale in 2020. Twice selected to serve at DARPA, he led high-impact program transitions—including Command Post of the Future—and established DARPA’s first full-time forward cell in Afghanistan to run operational trials of emerging technologies. His background blends applied mathematics (MS, Naval Postgraduate School; BS, Virginia Tech), operational leadership in armor units, and hands-on R&D management, enabling rapid prototype-to-field transitions. Ryan currently advises defense tech firms, sits on a board focused on multispectral signature management, and runs entrepreneurial ventures while farming, reflecting a pragmatic mix of strategy, technical depth, and field-tested tradecraft. An often-overlooked strength is his ability to bridge academic modeling and agent-based simulation work with real-world operational constraints to deliver usable capability.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Virginia TechMS, Applied Mathematics, MS, Applied Mathematics at Naval Postgraduate School
Github Skills (12)
gradle-kotlin-dsl5
android-library4
kotlin4
android3
android-apps3
messaging2
scalable2
php2
bootstrap-theme1
pulse1
bootstrap-components1
bootstrap1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
istresearch/php-datadogstatsd
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 8 pushes, 3 branches in 3 days
phpphp-clientdogstatsd
zerobandwidth-net/The_Bourne_Ingenuity
Jul 2017 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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