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Ryan Baumann

Developer Experience Engineering, product, and AI coding agents.

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I lead Developer Experience Engineering and product for builder platforms. I turn recurring developer problems into shipped tools, evals, and reusable paths for humans and AI coding agents.

Current focus

Head of Developer Experience, Google Maps Platform (2022 to present)

  • Lead Developer Experience Engineering for Google Maps Platform.
  • Partner across product, engineering, UX, technical writing, and field teams to turn repeated friction into product and distribution improvements.
  • Lead teams behind Code Assist, agent skills, agentic evals, and the Geo Architecture Center.

Earlier roles

  • Manufacturing Industry Solutions Manager, Google Cloud (2021 to 2022). Led product and engineering for Intelligent Product Essentials, from zero to launch with GE Appliances in nine months.
  • Director, Solutions Architecture, Instabase (2020 to 2021). Built the solutions architecture team for an AI platform focused on unstructured document automation.
  • Senior Manager and Senior Solutions Architect, Mapbox (2016 to 2020). Joined as the first customer-facing engineer, later led solutions architecture, and helped launch developer products and open-source partnerships.
  • Technical Solutions Engineer, Caterpillar (2012 to 2016). Built a cloud, IoT, mobile, and analytics worksite productivity solution for fleet operations.

Education and foundation

B.S. Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Before software, I raced professionally for Trek-Livestrong and Bahati Foundation.

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