About
I'm Ryan. I'm building things at Cursor right now.
Before that I co-founded Pyroscope, an open-source continuous profiling tool. We went through YC in Winter 2021, raised money, built a team, and sold the company to Grafana Labs in 2023. I spent a couple years there after the acquisition building AI products before moving on.
The weirder part of my story is that I started in investment banking. Did internships at Goldman Sachs and Google, realized I wanted to actually build things instead of analyzing them, quit, went to a coding bootcamp, and never looked back.
I write here because I learn better when I explain things. Most of what I write is about building products and using AI in cool new ways, especially for non-technical folks trying to level up like I once was.
Career Timeline
Building all kinds of things
Cursor
Working on the future of software development with AI.
Principal Product Manager
Grafana Labs
Built AI products after the Pyroscope acquisition.
Engineering Director, Pyroscope
Grafana Labs
Integrated Pyroscope into Grafana's observability platform following acquisition.
CEO, Co-Founder (YC W21)
Pyroscope
Founded open-source continuous profiling solution. Raised $2M+ including Y Combinator. Grew team from 0 to 12 globally distributed engineers. Acquired by Grafana Labs.
Sr. Data Engineer, Lion Studios
AppLovin
Built automated ROI-based bidding systems and analytical tools for mobile ad optimization.
Product Analyst, Lion Studios
AppLovin
Developed data-driven strategies for game monetization and user acquisition.
Product Manager (Mobile Apps)
Sensor Tower
Designed strategies that increased app downloads by ~1.5M and improved 30-day retention from 12% to 30%.
Software Engineer
Sensor Tower
Developed automated systems tracking 2+ billion ads annually across various ad networks.
Real Estate, Lodging and Gaming Summer Analyst
Goldman Sachs
Investment banking internship focused on real estate and hospitality sectors.
AdGrants Intern
Supported non-profit organizations with Google Ad Grants program.