Ry Walker
Education
University of Cincinnati
, Computer Science 1990-01-01 - 1992-01-01
AngelPad
Founder Alumni of AngelPad, Founder School Entrepreneurship 2015-01-01 - 2015-01-01
Liberty High School
, 1986-01-01 - 1990-01-01Work Experience
Tembo
Current
Tembo
Fireroad
Current
Fireroad
Cincinnati Ventures
Current
Cincinnati Ventures
AnotherVenture
Current
AnotherVenture
Astronomer
2015-05-01 - 2022-12-01
Astronomer
Differential
2013-01-01 - 2015-05-01
Differential
RecruitMilitary
2008-05-01 - 2012-06-01
RecruitMilitary
Devine Group
2003-10-01 - 2008-05-01
Devine Group
Sharkbytes, Inc.
1995-06-01 - 2001-05-01
Sharkbytes, Inc.
Skills
Summary
I'm a long-time software engineer, founder, and champion of open source. I'm currently building Tembo, your tireless AI teammate that watches your systems, hunts down bugs, optimizes databases, and ships features while you focus on the fun stuff. In 2022 I created OSSRank, a public ranking of open-source software and people. In 2015 I co-founded Astronomer, one of Cincinnati's first tech unicorns. In 2013 I co-founded Differential, a venture studio built around the open-source Meteor framework. In the 00's I was CTO for a couple of Cincinnati-based software companies, specializing in open-source Ruby on Rails. In the 90's I built and sold a web agency, leveraging open-source Perl and PHP. I love nature, science, art, tennis, platform tennis, golf, basketball, fishing and indie game development.
