01.
Apple software engineer
full-time · cupertino · jun 2026 → present
joined apple full-time as a software engineer on the camera & photos team, after two summers interning with the org during school.
now
camera + photos
00 - ryan polasky
north dakota · cdt
software engineer · backend + ai / llm tooling
i'm ryan,
i build stuff.
ut dallas cs grad, now a software engineer on apple's camera & photos team. most recently built autopsy - forensic memory for ai coding agents.
BACKENDAI / LLM TOOLINGDEVELOPER PRODUCTIVITYPYTHONTYPESCRIPTREACTSQL / NOSQLDOCKERKUBERNETES
01 - about
small,
useful things,
on purpose.
i'm a computer science graduate from ut dallas ('26), now a software engineer on apple's camera & photos team. before going full-time i spent two summers there as an intern, building ai tooling for the wireless tech (WTE) & camera & photos orgs.
i enjoy backend, devops, and making llms actually do what you want them to do. i also have a bad habit of rebuilding this website. this is version eleven, but the older ones are still around if you want to see them.
languages
PythonTypeScriptHTML/CSSSwiftJavaScriptJavaC++SwiftUIRObj-C
data
PostgreSQLOpenSearchRedisMySQLSQLiteVector DBsMongoDB
ai / llms
LLM IntegrationRAG SystemsVertex AIFine-tuningFunction CallingEmbeddings
devops
KubernetesCI/CDAWS/GCPDockerHelmTerraformJenkins
02 - experience
places i've been.
02.
Apple at-home advisor
customer engineering · remote · may 2023 → jun 2026
worked remotely alongside school, sustaining a 6.87% escalation rate well below department average through independent research and advanced troubleshooting. 0.27 min average call wrap time, 15% above department-average csat, and 2× applecare excellence award recipient (2024, 2025).
+15%
csat vs dept avg
03.
ACM UTD development lead · education mentor
student leadership · dallas · may 2025 → may 2026
served as development lead within acm at ut dallas. mentored 1,200+ hackutd participants and debugged critical issues for 60+ teams. led meteormate, a react, fastapi, and postgres roommate-matching platform. also mentored four underclassmen through internship preparation.
1,200+
hackers mentored
04.
Apple camera api test automation
intern · cupertino · may–aug 2025
built automated parsing for thousands of on-device camera and photos tests, integrated llms into the failure-triage pipeline, and shipped a unified bug-report generator that attached relevant failure artifacts.
4,800%
manual triage reduction
05.
Apple wte tools engineer
intern · cupertino · jun–nov 2024
built an llm-powered chat interface and python package for translating natural language into sql and nosql queries. migrated internal services from java 11 to jdk 21, addressed security vulnerabilities, designed aws/gcp ci/cd pipelines, and optimized an ios log analyzer for real-time rendering.
nl → sql
schema-aware planner
06.
Altru Health System it intern
intern · grand forks · jun 2021 → jul 2022
repaired, imaged, and deployed hundreds of machines for a critical healthcare-system expansion. handled urgent hardware deliveries during peak demand and set the department intake record at 300+ devices.
300+
intake record
03 / projects
selected
systems
07
projects
01.
01/07team of 4
run details
Autopsy
a black box recorder for ai coding agents.
coding agents repeat the same mistakes every run. autopsy records every tool call, autopsies the rejected runs into a failure knowledge graph, and injects warnings straight into the next session's system prompt so the agent stops relearning lessons it already paid for. shipped at la hacks 2026 as a team of four.
the problem
agents have no memory between runs.
the pipeline
record, classify, graph, repeat.
PythonFastAPIPostgrespgvectorNext.jsTypeScriptopencodeGemma
02.
02/07lead · acm utd
the front door
MeteorMate
ai-driven roommate matching for utd students.
lead for an acm utd platform that matches students on habits, lifestyle, and preferences, not just location or price. owned roadmap/task breakdown, shaped the next/react frontend + python/fastapi backend architecture across postgres + firebase, and drove deployment reliability fixes for local and vercel-style environments.
product lead
matching for actual living compatibility.
architecture
next, fastapi, postgres, firebase.
React.jsFastAPIPythonPostgresFirebaseDevOps
03.
03/07solo
side angle
rycord
a cache-first 3d record room built from my discogs collection.
in rycord, a kallax-style shelf sits in a cozy bedroom scene, populated by the actual albums in my record collection. each record pulls out of its slot, flips to the back jacket, and shows the tracklist + description in an info panel. APIs only get hit on first grab, then every reload reads from the cache on local disk.
the room
kallax shelf, cozy room, real covers.
Next.jsReact Three FiberThree.jsPostprocessingDiscogs APISharpDocker
04.
04/07team of 4
a 2D survivor roguelike about a druid fighting capital encroachment.
created for my Introduction to Video Game Programming course, NIMBY is a game where a magical druid defends the forest from corporate creatures: lumberjacks, construction foremen, contractors, and the CEO. four forms (druid, fox, bear, frog) with distinct ability kits shaped to counter a specific boss archetype, plus a roguelike loop of mutations and pawn-shop items between rooms. every sprite was hand-drawn by the team, and the original soundtrack was composed by yours truly.
design
rock-paper-scissors-druid.
encounters
four bosses, four mechanic flexes.
GodotGDScriptGame DesignAudioMusic Composition
05.
05/07apple camera intern
LLM Test Triage
end-to-end triage pipeline for 1000+ camera tests: parse, group, classify, file.
every cycle ran 1000+ on-device camera tests; manual triage was the bottleneck. architected an end-to-end pipeline (xml log parsing, intelligent failure grouping, gemini-backed root cause analysis with 75% dedup accuracy, and a multi-threaded bug report writer serving 50+ engineers), collapsing manual triage time by 4,800%. shipped during the 2025 cupertino internship.
pipeline architecture
parse, group, classify. at scale.
gemini deduplication
75% dedup accuracy, 48× faster triage.
PythonJenkinsGeminiLLMs
private
06.
06/07apple WTE intern
NL → SQL / NoSQL
natural-language query interface for internal data stores.
engineers ask in plain english; the planner generates schema-aware queries against postgres and nosql backends. also migrated the surrounding service from java 11 → jdk 21 and designed its aws/gcp ci/cd workflow. 2024 cupertino internship on the developer tools team.
PythonFastAPIPostgres
private
07.
07/07solo
RyMe.md
browser-only generator for animated github readme banners.
static READMEs are tired and the existing stats-card generators all converge on the same look. RyMe.md is the workspace for designing animated profile banners across seven template families, each rendered and exported entirely in-tab. SVG templates bake CSS @keyframes so banners animate without javascript and play in github's markdown renderer. zero server, zero signup - one file out, drop into your username/username repo, done.
output
live templates, rendered in your browser.
ViteReactTypeScriptTailwind CSSSVGCanvasCloudflare Pages
