Ryan Prendergast
Founder at Alpha Research
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyan Prendergast is a founder and software engineer with nine years of experience building startups and developer-facing products from idea to production. Based in New York, he led engineering at Bubble's core editor team and founded Alpha Research to create open-source, agentic knowledge bases aimed at democratizing humanity's knowledge. His track record includes co-founding hardware and payments startups—an affordable eye-tracking wearable for users with limited motor function and payments software for luxury retailers—demonstrating a mix of product, hardware, and infrastructure expertise. He has applied functional programming at scale (Haskell work on vehicle communications during a Tesla internship) and shipped tooling that supports rapid startup formation (Dolphin, a “startup in a box”). A Y Combinator alumnus and University of Illinois CS graduate, he blends academic rigor with hands-on startup execution and a focus on accessibility and open knowledge as guiding themes.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Spring 2025, Spring 2025 at Y CombinatorMaine South High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English
Github Skills (41)
authentication9
jwt9
oauth9
auth9
react8
nuxt8
csrf8
stateless8
nodejs8
sveltekit8
nuxt-auth7
javascript7
css7
solidjs7
minifier7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rprend/Loci
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 3 days
rprend/YAPS
Oct 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
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