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Ryan McPartlan

Yonkers, NY, 10701 • ryanmcp45@gmail.com • (914) 426-7358

Experience

Enlighten Clinical Solutions
Remote
CTO, Cofounder
2025 – Present
  • Created an Electronic Data Capture system for Clinical Trials.
  • Designed the system to be extremely user friendly, requiring 3 clicks to achieve all major workflows.
  • Utilized prefetching, database readmodels, and other techniques to achieve near-instant load times sitewide for millions of pieces of data.
  • Fulfilled the highest compliance requirements for medical work, conforming to GDPR, HIPAA, SOC2.
  • 100% client satisfaction rate. Our clients have consistently recommended us and used us for future projects.
  • Operated 24/7 engineering support.
Digital Ground Game
Remote
Co-founder, Partnerships Director
2025 – Present
  • Co-founded Digital Ground Game, an organization dedicated to mobilizing New Media audiences.
  • Connected with guests including Adam Mockler, Tim Miller, and a dozen other figures onto a fundraiser stream raising 260k.
  • Assisted in coordinating our attendance at Libcon, where 40 New Media members and dozens of creators connected with Institutional Democrats like Ezra Klein and Anne Applebaum.
  • Created and manage the organization Rolodex of 400 contacts.
Progressive Victory
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Canvassing Director
2024
  • Led a team of 8 canvassers to knock 80k doors in the Pennsylvania area.
  • Knocked 10k doors personally.
  • Ranked #3 most persuasive across 70 canvassers.
  • Hosted weekly canvassing events, and scaled these events to 6 other states PV was canvassing — resulting in 20k doorknocks and significant volunteer activation.
  • Hosted a national event successfully after having our budget cut from $20k to $0, gathering over 100 canvassers with John Kerry as a speaker.
Google
NYC, New York
Software Engineer, L4
Nov 2022 – Mar 2024
  • Quit Google quickly due to fundamental incompatibilities.
  • See my blog post on the experience.
Autonico
NYC, New York
Founder
Mar 2023 – Jul 2023
  • Created Autonico.
  • Built a product which aggregated real estate data onto standard forms, instantly completing a 10 hour workflow.
  • Targeted a market of millions of real estate professionals who complete this workflow manually multiple times a month.
  • Pivoted away after failing to sell.
Correlation One
NYC, New York
Tech Lead – Training
Jan 2021 – Aug 2022
  • Led design of hundreds of changes to our Django API, postgres schema, and GCP/k8s infrastructure.
  • Ensured engineering was never our limiting factor as we grew from 2m revenue to ~30m expected revenue.
  • Audited cloud resource costs across all products, reducing costs by over 100k / year.
  • Led numerous org-wide policy changes: Credential management, document management, GDPR compliance, phishing, cross-department communication pipeline, code standardization.
  • Demanded a strong business case for all feature requests, ensuring my team's work was always high-value.
  • Led design for all back-end technology including API, Schema, and Infrastructure changes.
  • Coordinated bi-weekly releases of 5 major components of Training.
  • Represented, advocated for, and mentored 5 engineers. Empowered my team to explore subjects they were interested in whenever possible, increasing their autonomy, morale, and overall output.
  • Maintained strong interpersonal relationships within my team and among members of other departments, leading to high trust, excellent communication, and a positive environment across the organization.
Tech Lead – Terminal
Jan 2020 – Dec 2020
  • Led development of hundreds of features on Terminal, a game-based coding competition.
  • Audited cloud resource costs, reducing cost to run Terminal by over 30k / year.
  • Mirrored Terminal infrastructure from GCP onto Azure to host competitions in China.
  • Blocked low-leverage features and guided Terminal into "maintenance mode" when it was clear that we did not intend to scale, recovering thousands of engineering hours without any lost revenue.
Software Engineer – Terminal
May 2018 – Dec 2019
  • Researched cutting-edge papers to create custom pathfinding algorithm to take advantage of unique constraints in our game. Resulted in 3 orders of magnitude improvement over simple A*.
  • Designed and implemented a unique custom matchmaking rating system for our game based on Glicko2, dramatically increasing matchmaking quality and user contentment.
  • Assisted in setting up sandboxed environments on k8s where user-submitted code could be executed securely.
  • Worked to increase the consistency of our task queue system, making adjustments which cumulatively reduced unexpected task fail rate from ~1/10000 to zero after nearly a billion tasks.
  • Optimized ORM queries throughout the code, increasing speed of various requests by orders of magnitude.

Education

Manhattan College
NYC, New York
BS Computer Science
2014-2018
  • Member of the Alumni Board, advising on curriculum improvements based on real career experience.
  • Led 2 guest lectures on engineering process. Multiple students stayed hours afterwards for open discussion.
  • 4 time consecutive winner of the Manhattan college programming challenge.
  • Set the all-time school record score for the Computer Science Final Exam score, which has yet to be beaten.

Leadership & Life

Skills & Tech stack

Backend: Python, Django Web Framework, API Design, Schema design, DB normalization, SQL, Postgres, Jupyter

DevOps: GCP, Kubernetes, Appengine, Docker, CircleCI, Azure

Interpersonal: Empathetic, Positive, Constructive. Strong engineering philosophy. Passionate.