Ryan Noon

I like to

• secure things
• build companies
• advise and invest in startups
• write a lot of code
• run long distances
• crush crossword puzzles
• read equal parts history and scifi

I've been

• founder @ Material Security, 2017 to present
• head of analytics @ Dropbox, 2014-2016
founder, Parastructure, 2012-2014 (acquired by Dropbox)
• lead engineer, Ayasdi, 2010-2012
• Stanford Computer Science BS '09, MS '11
• TA, Section Leader @ Stanford

I once made

• a collaborative peer-to-peer code editor for reducing bias in tech interviews
• a "stealthy data analytics startup" with "visualization capabilities unlike anything else on the market"
• a opengl graph visualizer capable of displaying million node graphs
• a low-latency memoized distributed RPC system backed by HBase
• a novel graph construction for mining document corpora
• a Python library for efficient storage and analysis of time-based graphs
• an interactive graph database over the entire Wikipedia edit history
• an application for flexible large-scale time series analysis
• a real-time Twitter logger for analyzing real-world events