Ryan Walker
Co-Founder at General Legal (YC26)
California, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Walker is a technology leader and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building ML-driven legal products and data platforms. As Co-Founder of General Legal (YC26) and former VP Technology for Thomson Reuters' CoCounsel, he has led teams that replace billable-hour workflows with scalable, product-first legal tooling. Previously as CTO and head of data science at Casetext he architected search, recommendation, and NLP systems (CARA) in Scala, Rust, and Spark that serve millions of users. His background in mathematical research and large-scale data engineering gives him a rare combination of rigorous quantitative thinking and pragmatic systems design. Based in California, he’s known for shipping production-grade ML services and reinventing legal research through tightly integrated search, tagging, and recommendation pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Mathematics, PhD Mathematics at University of KentuckyBA Quantitative Economics and Mathematics, BA Quantitative Economics and Mathematics at Millersville University of Pennsylvania
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Github Skills (36)
storm10
clustering10
r9
clustering-algorithm9
python9
lucene9
natural-language-processing9
scikit-learn9
streaming9
nlp9
text-mining9
webserver8
flask7
crow7
rust6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rwalk/gsdmm-rust
Feb 2017 - Apr 2017
GSDMM: Short text clustering (Rust implementation)
Contributions:32 commits, 4 PRs, 24 pushes in 2 months
clusteringrustshort-textclustering-algorithmnlp
rwalk/straw
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
A platform for real-time streaming search
Contributions:135 commits, 107 pushes, 5 branches in 5 months
streamingreal-timestormluceneluwak
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