Ryan Yogan
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRyan Yogan is a founder and principal-level engineer with 20+ years designing distributed systems, scaling engineering orgs through hypergrowth, and shipping full-stack products. He built and scaled Procore’s UI org from 8 to 65+ engineers through IPO, founded an internal developer academy, and coined "Empathy Driven Development" to shrink enterprise feedback loops. Currently he leads Yogan Dot Dev and is building Lincoln, an experimental Elixir/OTP cognitive architecture exploring belief revision, persistent memory, and emergent agent behavior while publishing the work publicly. Hands-on across Elixir/Phoenix, TypeScript/Next.js, Cloudflare edge, vector stores and RAG/agent pipelines, he blends research-grade AI engineering with production-grade reliability. Equally comfortable hiring and mentoring senior teams or diving into low-level architecture and refactors, he prioritizes trust, curiosity, and hiring people who outgrow him. Based in Chicago, he’s open to Principal/Staff IC, engineering leadership, research roles at frontier AI labs, or founding engineer opportunities.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Information Systems, Information Systems at Florida Atlantic UniversityUniversity of Missouri
English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (85)
zero-configuration10
developer-tools10
build-tools10
create-react-app10
react10
masters9
redis8
clock8
amazon8
command-line-interface7
amazon-web-services7
aws7
shadcn-ui6
experiences6
html6
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
ryanyogan/client
Sep 2017 - Aug 2020
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
ryanyogan/graphql-ftw
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:17 commits, 10 pushes, 2 branches in 20 days
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