Ryan C. Barrett

AI and current technology are powerful. Let’s use them to provide people with secure retirements.

Ryan Barrett, Chief Tech Officer

Experienced engineering leader. 20+ years building and scaling backend infrastructure, data platforms and applications, and cross functional teams. 11 USPTO patents.

A New Social / Bridgy Fed, 2017-present CTO
bridge between decentralized social networks like the fediverse (eg Mastodon), Bluesky, the web, and more. As of April 2025, over 100k users.

NCX, 2021 – 2024 Head of Data
Led a team of machine learning engineers and data scientists to build a carbon exchange marketplace based on a detailed forest inventory of the entire continental US.

Color, 2015-2021 Engineering lead; Head of engineering
Helped grow a team to 30 software engineers and data scientists.
Led bioinformatics and product teams to implement new genetic tests and health areas, physician ordering, insurance billing, dynamic interactive reports, external facing analytics suite, and more.
Led infrastructure and ops teams to deliver CI/CD, development toolchains, and >99.9% availability. Led security, compliance and IT to implement dozens of initiatives with no breaches.
Led data platform and data science teams.
Built internal analytics stack and multibillion-row data warehouse that does GWAS studies and polygenic scores in minutes.
Created Color Data (blog post), a large interactive public research dataset.
Implemented much of the bioinformatics pipeline.

Quip, 2013 – 2015 Engineer
Contributed to server and storage system, data model, synchronization protocol, web frontend, iOS app, and Android app.

Google, 2003 – 2013 Senior Staff Engineer
Co-founded Google App Engine, one of the FIrst cloud PaaS platforms, which eventually hit >$1B run rate and led to Google Cloud.
Led engineering for the datastore (large-scale, globally multi-homed NoSQL database that stored >1T rows, >1EB of data, and served >3 Mqps)
Designed and built company-wide ML infrastructure for personalization.
Led and contributed to network management projects for Google’s backbone network, (including command and control, monitoring, automation, topology, routing, peering, and OpenFlow)
Spearheaded Google’s OpenID support (including Bloggerintegrations and a full Google Accounts provider)
Co-founded Google’s transaction processing and billing platform and led its storage engineering team.
Engineering lead; Head of engineering
Contributed to server and storage system, data model, synchronization protocol, web frontend, iOS app, and Android app.

IBM Research Almaden, Extreme Blue, 2001 – 2003, Software Engineer

Advisor: Kind Health, 2024-2025, South Park Commons, 2023-ongoing, PowerMax LLC, 2020-ongoing,
YouRise Fund, 2020-ongoing, miscellaneous other startups, 2017-ongoing