# Ryan Schwers > Building AI superpowers for Doctors Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/ryanschwers Building AI superpowers for healthcare! At Ambience I work with AI researchers to bring the latest capabilities to clinicians. While simultaneously leveraging my background in Node.js @ web scale to build our platform and improve developer velocity. I co-founded Reddit’s WebPlatform team; lead multiple flagship product re-writes, developing a new architecture which improved performance 50% across the board and leading to 30% lift in traffic. I advised and contributed to Developer Platform enabling the community to build their own extensions and UI. I got my start at Hipmunk building desktop web and the. Mobile web before it was cool. Took a detour as founding iOS engineer at Pushbullet which Apple sherlocked for universal copy&paste and notification mirroring. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Ambience Healthcare Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area * Bringing node/js/wasm expertise to empower doctors with AI superpowers ### Staff Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2023 * Lead web archchitecture of flagship web products, devised new stack that lead to 50% performance improvement across all key product loadtime and server utilization metrics * Core contributor to developers.reddit.com system enabling communities to build their functionality and UI into reddit ### Senior Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 ### Software Engineer @ Reddit, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### First Employee @ Pushbullet Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco ### Software Engineer @ Hipmunk, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ### Software Dev Intern @ Bloomberg Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | New York, New York ## Education ### Mathematics and Computer Science Northeastern University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/schwers --- Source: https://flows.cv/ryanschwers JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/ryanschwers/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01