About ryan
I'm a Forward Deployed Engineer who embeds directly with teams to ship agentic and LLM solutions end-to-end — from the executive briefing to the Kubernetes internals that run it in production.Over ~3.5 years at Optum (UnitedHealth Group), a Fortune 5 healthcare organization, I've worked the full stack inside a 500+ person org: applied AI and ML, MCP/A2A agent platforms, RAG systems, UI development, CI/CD, Kubernetes, and Terraform. I'm fast to proof-of-concept and first deployment, and I care most about building things people actually adopt.A few things I've shipped: * Spectra AIDLC — a VS Code plugin for spec-driven AI development with engineering gates and agent orchestration, adopted by 500+ developers. * An MCP/A2A plugin platform (leading a team of 4) that lets teams stand up agents and routes in minutes, now in live multi-team use. * Production MCP servers (Dynatrace, ServiceNow, Splunk, Kubernetes) for an agentic site-reliability system that won our company hackathon and secured expansion funding — in production with the operations team today. * Internal RAG document chatbots and an LLM-powered scrum-scoring assistant that automated scoring across 50 teams.Recognition along the way: 2025 Optum Super Hero Award (~1 of 400 across all of Optum), the 2025 Medicare & Retirement Sales Technology Impact Award (1 of 2 from a ~500-person org), and Forward Deployed Engineer certification through hands-on training with Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft.I'm a self-starter who designs products, builds the practices and tooling to scale them, and reaches out to the right people to get things across the line. If you're working on putting LLMs and agents into real production use, I'd love to talk.Toolkit: Python, TypeScript/JavaScript, Java, C/C++, SQL · LLMs, RAG, MCP & A2A, OpenAI Agents SDK, Claude Code, Codex · Azure, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, CI/CD · Flask, Node/Express, React, Angular · Elasticsearch, Splunk, Dynatrace, Cosmos DB, Azure AI Search.
Key Skills
Experience
Forward Deployed Engineer
CurrentOptum
Applied AI, Agents & LLMs | Fast to POC and first deployment
Data Engineer
Optum
Education
University Of Minnesota
Bachelor Of Science
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ryan specializes in Forward Deployed Engineer, with expertise in aiops, algorithms, anthropic claude, azure openai, c (programming language).
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ryan is based in minneapolis, minnesota, united states.
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ryan has 3+ years of professional experience.
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