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Hello, I'm Ryan.

I'm an entrepreneur, engineer, and designer focused on building and growing software companies.

About

I specialize in privacy, security, compliance, and software design. I'm currently the CTO at Haekka, a Slack-based training platform that is quickly becoming the new paradigm in security awareness built for modern work. Haekka allows organizations to intelligently train their workforce with the right content at the right time — entirely from the tools they already use.

Previously, I served as Chief Product and Security Officer at Datica, leading the development of a secure Kubernetes platform. Datica was acquired in 2019. Earlier, I co-founded a startup using optical character recognition to assist educators in grading, pre-dating popular AI trends. I hold an Applied Science degree from R.I.T.

Experience

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Haekka

CTO & Co-founder

VC, Operating

2020-Present

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Security Yak

Partner

Operating

2023-Present

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Stride Health

vCISO

VC, Operating

2023-Present

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RMI

vCISO

Operating

2019-2020

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Datica

Chief Product Officer

VC, Acquired

2017-2019

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WayUp

Product Consultant

VC, Operating

2017-2017

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Plaid

Product Consultant

VC, Operating

2017-2017

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Catalyze

Head of Product

VC, Acquired

2014-2017

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More Vang

Frontend Engineer

Operating

2013-2014

Writing