# Ryan T.

> Engineering Lead at Adaptive Security

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/ryant

## Work Experience
### Engineering Lead @ Adaptive Security
Jan 2024 – Present

### Co-Founder and CTO @ Permanent
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Brooklyn, New York, United States
Supporting short-chain, regenerative, and sustainable agriculture, starting with building source and price transparency into the wholesale food market

### Software Engineer @ Attentive
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | New York, New York, United States

### Head of Architecture @ Hive Streaming
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden

### Co-Founder and CTO @ Attentive
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York, United States
Oversaw engineering up to series A funding:
- 2 significant pivots before finding product-market fit
- establishing initial scalable architecture for APIs and async conversations
- fostering supportive, productive, curious culture

### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California, United States
Folded TapCommerce product into Twitter infrastructure
Extended Twitter ad spend to off-Twitter ad inventory

### Lead Platform Architect @ TapCommerce
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | New York, New York, United States
Built a mobile app retargeting platform
Handled 700k requests per second, with p999 response time < 100ms
Acquired by Twitter in July 2014


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Graphics and Animation
DePaul University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/bbwuk4tbxthbcvotdktmfz9nyjajg6ut6r39rufh8ee79rzhvuxycjdnjmk8ieq7ely7s3uto8apcxfdhvnlevy4gw7tdlpdhedv

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Last updated: 2026-04-13