Summary
Ryan Reece is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Engineer with 11+ years applying ML to real-world problems and over 15 years of data-science experience grounded in a Ph.D. and postdoc on the ATLAS experiment during the LHC startup and Higgs discovery. He has shifted from particle-physics research at CERN to building high-performance deep learning accelerators and production ML at startups like Cerebras and Tenstorrent, with hands-on work spanning computer vision, machine translation, and large language models. Ryan excels at ML hardware/software co-design, data reduction, visualization, and statistical inference, bridging rigorous scientific methods with engineering for scale. Based in Mountain View, he combines academic depth with startup velocity and brings a pragmatic curiosity—he’s equally comfortable optimizing model pipelines as he is parsing detector-level data. Outside work he’s a husband, father, and self-described nerd, a hint of the personal drive behind his technical focus.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics and Web Development, Mathematics and Web Development at Portland Community College
Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration Accounting, Bachelor of Science - BS Business Administration Accounting at Western Governors University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Lake Oswego Senior High School
English, German