Ryan Stolliker

Backend and Mobile focused Software Engineer with 7 years of experience building AI-powered features and scalable infrastructure at Meta, Quantcast, Google, and independent software products.

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San Francisco, California

Experience

Independent Software Engineer / Founder - December 2024 to Present

Bench Bazaar - https://benchbazaar.com/

  • Built and launched a full-stack platform for creating, running, and sharing custom AI benchmarks using Next.js, TypeScript, tRPC, Prisma/Postgres, Clerk, and Vercel.
  • Designed a browser-side BYOK execution architecture using OpenRouter, keeping inference costs and generated outputs off the application backend.
  • Implemented benchmark sharing, persisted scoring, model leaderboards, and Stripe subscription billing.

Just Easy Tasks - https://justeasytasks.com/

  • Built and launched an API-first issue tracker for developers and AI agents using FastAPI, React, Postgres, Clerk, Stripe, and Fly.io.
  • Exposed task management through REST, CLI, and MCP interfaces so the same system could be used by humans, scripts, and AI agents.
  • Owned the full production lifecycle, including schema design, migrations, authentication, billing, staging, deployment, and documentation.

Software Engineer, Meta - December 2023 to November 2024

  • As part of the Personalized AI Capabilities team at Meta Reality Labs, developed features that added individualized context to AI interactions on wearable devices.
  • Helped launch the Reminders feature for Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, announced at Meta Connect 2024, implementing Android functionality in Kotlin for the Meta Wearables app.
  • Implemented reminder synchronization and media persistence across devices and app reinstalls.
  • Added metrics logging for reminders operations to track usage analytics, end-to-end latency, and error rates.
  • Integrated user contact embeddings to refine personalized voice recognition when searching for contacts, enhancing accuracy and ease of use.

Software Engineer, Quantcast - June 2018 to March 2023

  • Member of the Common Tools and Services team, building and maintaining internal applications, enhancing developer collaboration and efficiency.
  • Built a Ruby on Rails service with a React UI and GraphQL API to automate Kubernetes deployments, scaling to manage 1,000+ services with integrated monitoring and security.
  • Optimized PostgreSQL queries and fixed stability issues in a Rails-based cron management system, improving page-load performance and reliability.
  • Built a Python service to automate scheduled, non-disruptive Kubernetes node termination, later extended for cluster migrations and additional internal use cases.
  • Migrated a legacy in-house user login Java service to Okta, providing additional security to users and reducing on-call tickets by roughly 10 per week.

Software Engineering Intern, Google - June 2017 to September 2017

  • Worked with the Ads Experiments Infrastructure team.
  • Optimized an internal system using C++ to reduce memory and resource usage, reducing the size of objects in memory by 75-96%.
  • Created and maintained documentation and unit tests.

Projects

Jurassic World Evolution 3 Cohabitation Guide

Plan compatible dinosaur enclosures, identify potential clashes, and calculate their combined environmental needs.

Live project Source code

ARC Raiders Loot Lookup

Search ARC Raiders items and quickly decide what to keep, sell, or recycle based on value, rarity, crafting uses, and item notes.

Live project Source code

Sprite Prompt Builder

Build engine-ready sprite generation prompts by selecting a character, art style, motion, frame count, and background treatment.

Live project Source code

Yellow Tweak

Adjust the yellow saturation in an image directly in the browser, making overly bright generated images easier to correct.

Live project Source code

Education

University of California, Irvine

  • 2014-2018
  • Bachelor of Science, Information and Networked Systems
  • GPA: 3.6
  • Achievements: Dean's Honor Roll received 7 times, ARCS Scholar 2015

Skills

Programming Languages

  • Kotlin
  • Python
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Ruby (on Rails)
  • Java
  • C++

Systems and Technologies

  • Android
  • Next.js
  • React
  • FastAPI
  • Kubernetes