I'm Ryan. I'm a Senior Field Engineer at SpaceXAI.

Before that I was Head of Technical Enablement at Cursor - first technical hire on the enablement team, focused on GTM. Before Cursor I co-founded Pyroscope, an open-source continuous profiling tool. We went through YC in Winter 2021, raised $2.4M, built a team, and sold the company to Grafana Labs in 2023. I stayed on as Principal Emerging Products Manager 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.