Background
About
Ryan Baumann leads Developer Experience Engineering and product for builder platforms.
I lead Developer Experience Engineering for Google Maps Platform. I build systems that turn recurring developer friction into shipped tools, clearer paths, and measurable adoption.
My team works across product, engineering, UX, technical writing, and field teams. Recent work includes Code Assist, agent skills, agentic evals, the Geo Architecture Center, and open-source client libraries.
I shape this work directly: whether that's writing the first evals for a new agent or shipping a reference app to test our own friction. The loop is simple: find a problem that repeats, build the smallest useful artifact, test whether it helps, and publish what others can reuse. I've explained the operating model in DevX Is a Growth Function.
Before this role, I led product and engineering for Intelligent Product Essentials at Google Cloud. I've also built the solutions architecture team at Instabase and worked as Mapbox's first customer-facing engineer. There, the team launched Boundaries and Atlas, while I wrote open-source tools for Python notebooks and Power BI. My early career was spent building connected-worksite systems at Caterpillar.
I studied mechanical engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but before writing software, I raced professionally for Trek-Livestrong and Bahati Foundation. Racing taught me to pace long efforts, measure the right signal, and keep looking for the next useful improvement. I still love the outdoors and pushing myself gravel riding and trail running.