Resume
Ryan Baumann
Developer Experience Engineering, product, and AI coding agents.
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.