Ryo Chijiiwa
Founder at Ponderosa.ai, Inc.
Chico, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRyo Chijiiwa is a founder and seasoned engineering leader with 14 years of professional experience building product-focused teams and shipping production software across startups and large organizations. He currently leads Ponderosa.ai, developing fire-mapping and suppression drones to help protect communities and ecosystems, and consults on early-stage technical projects. Previously he scaled engineering organizations and mobile platforms for million-plus daily users at brightwheel and led the Altitude Learning engineering team through major strategic transitions including M&A and a successful acquisition. Ryo combines deep full-stack and backend expertise—having co-authored a Dynamic REST framework and built high-throughput real-time systems—with a knack for practical invention, evidenced by a patent-pending information-theory application in biomedical work. His background includes founding multiple ventures, hands-on hardware and green-energy product work, and building widely used open-source software early in his career, reflecting a blend of entrepreneurial grit and technical breadth. Based in Chico, California, he brings pragmatic leadership that balances product delivery, team development, and mission-driven engineering.
14 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at California State University, ChicoBachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science at University of ChicagoLaw, Law at Keio University
Github Skills (20)
robotics10
rest-framework10
django-rest10
rest10
django-rest-framework10
rest-api10
python9
django9
plane9
api9
ros9
arduino8
rover8
mavlink8
autopilot8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
AltSchool/python
May 2015 - Oct 2019
Docs for the Organization
Contributions:5 PRs, 4 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 6 months
jinja2docstringspython
ryochiji/BootstrapSolar
Oct 2011 - Sep 2014
Contributions:20 commits in 3 years
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