Summary
Ryan Rasti is an engineering leader and founder with 12 years of experience building and scaling secure, revenue-generating systems from zero to high-impact production. He has led teams and shipped complex features at Google—contributing to SafeBrowsing protections for billions of users and turning a consumer malware scanner into an enterprise product—and later scaled a cloud WMS that processed 100K+ orders as CTO and cofounder of Tavoro. Based in Mountain View, he blends first-principles thinking and academic rigor with relentless delivery, frequently diving deep to push features across the finish line. Ryan’s work spans security, distributed systems, and logistics software, and he has a track record of recruiting and growing top-tier engineering teams under compressed timelines. As a founder of ExoAgent, he’s now applying that product-to-scale experience to build novel agent-oriented offerings. Unusually, his path includes both academic research placements (ICSI) and a Stanford PhD start before switching to product-focused leadership.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
PhD Computer Science (drop-out), PhD Computer Science (drop-out) at Stanford University