Ryland Birchmeier
Co-Founder at Dream
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyland Birchmeier is a founder and software engineer studying Computer Science at UVA with nine years of hands-on experience building AI-first products and scalable backend systems. He co-founded Dream, an AI browser for enterprise, and previously helped launch Hufflo and HYMNAI, blending product-focused engineering with entrepreneurial drive. During internships at xAI and X he rebuilt critical services—from a Grok-powered premium support bot to a notification pipeline that handled over a billion sends—and pioneered anti-impersonation defenses. His background spans ML research (latent diffusion models and CNNs for aerial imagery), LLM integrations for enterprise workflows, and rapid prototyping communicated to executive stakeholders. Outside of engineering he writes music and builds AI tools for musicians, reflecting a creative streak that informs his product sensibility.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Bishop's SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Virginia
Github Skills (10)
monitor2
selenium-webdriver2
amazon2
uci1
geckodriver1
python1
proxy1
selenium1
chess-engine1
java1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Ryguy-1/StatBotV2-Web-Code
Jan 2021 - Jul 2021
Contributions:24 commits, 24 pushes in 6 months
Ryguy-1/cs2120f23
Aug 2023 - Jan 2024
UVa Discrete Mathematics CS2120 Fall 2023
Contributions:140 pushes in 4 months
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