Ryan Zernach
🏛️AI Infrastructure 🤖MLOps / LLMOps
Summary
I’m Ryan, an AI-savvy team member & leader who calmly ships production-grade software. I build agentic workflows supported by schema-validated outputs and lightweight evals. I measure impact in hours saved, latency, accuracy, $/task, and $/quality.
I’ve deployed both front-end apps and back-end infrastructure at every level of production environments:
- 10+ years of Engineering
- 7+ years of Python
- 5+ years of TypeScript & React
Tech Stack
- LLM Ops / Semantic Kernel / LangChain / CrewAI
- OpenAPI Pipelines / MCP / Agents / Evaluations
- Machine Learning / PyTorch / NLP / Fine-Tuning
- Dev Tools: Cursor / Copilot / Windsurf / Continue
- Databases: SQL / GraphQL / NoSQL
- Cloud: Azure / AWS / GCP / Cloud / SecOps
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions / FastLane
- DevOps: Docker / Kubernetes
- Mobile/Web: React Native / iOS / Android / Web / Expo Router
- Frontend: TypeScript / React JS / Next JS / HTML / Streamlit
- Payments: Apple Pay / Subscriptions / Checkout
- Email: IMAP / POP / Automations / Notifications
- Ops Tools: Dashboards / CLI Tools
- APIs: WebSockets / Flask / FastAPI / Express / DNS
- Queues: RabbitMQ / Cron Jobs
- Analytics: Marketing Analytics / Sales Engineering
Experience
AI Engineer & Solutions Architect • Archlife Industries Software (100% Remote)
2020 – Present
- Published four social networking apps and two digital marketplace platforms
- Deployed agentic Python endpoints for merchant onboarding & inventory management
- Architected marketplace eCommerce platform with emphasis on security, scalability & analytics
- Built a cross between Robinhood & Facebook for secure stock/crypto exchanges
- Automated email marketing campaigns to attract sellers to our platform
- Created a fitness iOS/Android app with trainer payments
- Optimized an iPad React Native app (map performance + bluetooth extension)
AI Engineer & iOS/Android Engineer • CellarTracker (100% Remote, Seattle)
2023 – 2025
- Boosted new app’s ratings to 4.9 avg with 8,000+ 5-star ratings
- Built both frontend & backend for CellarChat™ LLM agent (1M+ members)
- Architected OpenAPI pipeline, fine-tuning pipeline, & LLM metrics evaluation
- Integrated Apple Pay into React Native app → increased revenue
- Added recommended wines, feed posts, barcode scanning, image search
- Engineered API for report tickets → auto-generated HTML emails
- Built analytics tracking for user interactions
- Rebuilt legacy app in React Native (iOS + Android support)
- Iteratively improved Redux store for persistent state management
- Created end-to-end (e2e) test suites
React Native Developer • Demosphere (100% Remote, Washington D.C.)
2022 – 2023
- Migrated codebase JavaScript → TypeScript for long-term maintainability
- Enhanced group chat, push notifications, and calendar sync → better reviews
- Applied Google Crashlytics to reduce crashes & improve p95 performance
- Reduced computational and network loads for better efficiency
React Native Developer • FinEquities (100% Remote, Miami)
2021 – 2022
- Integrated APIs for bank accounts, stocks, cryptocurrencies
- Managed frontend, backend cloud functions, & authentication
- Built data visualizations for stock/crypto performance
- Added social features: chat, profiles, posts, likes, emojis, comments
- Developed portfolio copy, trending investors, & stock suggestions
- Built an admin dashboard to monitor app performance
Web Developer • instaSod.com, CustomizedChristmasLights.com
2015 – 2019
- Self-marketed businesses → $500k+ gross sales in 3 years
- Founded two LLCs: landscape design & professional lighting
- Built video upload + automated PDF pricing proposals
Education
Machine Learning & Data Science (Teaching Assistant) Vanderbilt University, EdX • Remote • Nashville, TN 2020 – 2021
- Taught 900+ students ML, APIs, JavaScript, HTML, Python, dashboards, & databases
- Delivered weekly lessons to 30+ students remotely
- Gained exposure to hundreds of ML applications
Data Science Software Engineering Lambda School (BloomTech) • Remote • San Francisco, CA 2019 – 2020
- Deployed ML models, Recommendation Engines, CV, NLP Pipelines
- Built APIs with Flask/FastAPI, Data Engineering, SQL/NoSQL
Computer Science & Mathematics Georgia Southern University • Statesboro, GA 2011 – 2012
- Courses: Calculus, Statistics, R, Data Structures, Programming Principles, Linear Regression, C, C++
Certifications
- 2019: Y Combinator Startup School
- 2019: AWS Cloud Practitioner
- 2020: Google Cloud Developer
- 2020: TensorFlow Developer
- 2020: Machine Learning Pipelines
- 2020: Mosh React Native Academy
- 2022: Ethereum Blockchain Developer
- 2024: NASA Hackathon Finalist (Top 1%)