# Jae Ryu

> Building AI/ML Infrastructure at Modular

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jaeryu

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Modular
Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, WA
Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Astra
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Senior Backend Software Engineer @ Astra
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Building performant, scalable distributed systems for Platform Engineering, to optimize ingest pipelines to allow us to grow while spending less, increase automation across manufacturing for JIT, optimize engineering teams' workloads for ops efficiency & mission assurance.

• Led e2e design, development of critical Launch configuration system, boosting reliability, security, automation to reduce mission risk

• Developed distributed APIs to maintain ERDs across microservices, using CQRS, DLQ to enable eventual consistency w/ error handling

• Implemented scalable, event-driven ingest pipelines using Argo Workflows to parallelize ingest, decreasing latency by 80%, cost by 30% 

• Integrated 3p manufacturing PLMs with Kafka event bus, improving ops efficiency & business reporting

• Maintained infra with IaaC Terraform/grunt on AWS. Experiences with network security, cloud computing

### Product & Business Operations @ Lemonade
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Led across data, product/eng, customer teams for company's largest product launch - Car Insurance Product

### Director of Product Management @ Vecna Robotics
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020
Oversaw Product teams for roadmapping & dev, launched 2 new products: tote-retrieval-system, robot orchestration SW 
• Launched tote-retrieval-system robot to automate eCommerce inventory mgmt, securing company’s first $20M contract
• Implemented Robotic-as-a-Service architecture, with seat-based sign-on for a new robot orchestration SW  product
• Led maturation from R&D to GTM, adding 5 new products, recruited 30+ engineers, implemented product-focused org

### Management Consultant @ The Boston Consulting Group
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led product strategy across TMT, Enterprise SaaS, Tech Acquisitions
Top 10% of cohort for overall performance
• Built VBA scripts to power multi-variable projection models to forecast product performance for Fortune 500 clients
• Led engineering teams in prototyping multiple mobile-responsive Angular / React MVP apps based on product strategy
• Redesigned legacy GTM to online SaaS direct-to-consumer model, optimized for mobile-first, cloud-first architecture


## Education
### Undergraduate in Business Administration
University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jaeryu

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Last updated: 2026-03-22