Hello, I'm
Ryan Stout
AI Engineer & Entrepreneur, building cool stuff.
> Experience
Arsenal
Founder & CEO
- • Developed AI-powered photography accessory to help photographers capture better images
- • Scaled to 300,000+ units shipped worldwide
- • Led hardware design and established production in China
- • Grew team to 35 employees across engineering, marketing, and support
SocialData Technologies
Founder & CEO
- • Built custom AI models for personality and interest prediction from social data
- • Over 500,000 users
Apple
Software Engineer
- • Core developer on iAd mobile advertising platform
> Skills & Technologies
AI & Machine Learning
- • Started Learning ML in 2010.
- • Trained and deployed many models.
- • Image Enhancement, Photo Setting Selection, Personality Prediction
- • Lots of experience with On Device/Edge models
Software Development
- • Learned Programming as a kid
- • Python, JS, Ruby, C, C++, Elixir
- • Web Dev, Embedded, Mobile
Other Skills
- • Photography (@lostupgrades)
- • Video Editing
- • Hardware Development
- • CEO stuff
> Conference Talks
Practical Machine Learning and Rails
An AI/ML talk I gave with Andrew Cantino all of the way back in 2012.
A Shallow Dive into Deep Learning
An introduction to neural networks and deep learning fundamentals
Isomorphic App Development with Ruby and Volt
Building real-time web applications with Volt framework
Volt Framework
Deep dive into the Volt framework architecture and capabilities
