Hi, I'm Ryan! I'm currently a Software Engineer at Jane Street. I graduated from MIT in 2025, with a double major in CS + Math and a MEng in CS. For my MEng, I worked with Frans Kaashoek and Ariel Szekely on improving SigmaOS, a cloud operating system for optimizing both serverless and microservice applications. In my free time, I like playing video games (especially TFT), watching TV, learning Chinese, and working on a new version of Lilypad, my personal note-taking software.
Experience
Jane Street · Software Engineer
Sept 2025 – Present
Jane Street · SWE Intern
May – Aug 2024
Citadel · SWE Intern
Jun – Aug 2023
OPT Industries · SWE Intern
Jun – Aug 2022
Posts
Solving the fly.io distributed systems challenges (and learning about consistency models along the way)
· Tech · 42 min read
Some exploration of distributed systems via the fly.io distributed systems challenges. Covers my full solutions with pseudocode + discussion about consistency models.
a convo with my dad about value
· Blog · 5 min read
a conversation i had with my dad about the lottery while he was driving me to the city, and what it made me think about assessing things' value
Roots of Unity Filter Part 4 - Proof
· Math · 4 min read
The final part of a four part series about roots of unity filter. We go over the proof of the roots of unity filter, showing that it works with any cycle length or offset.
9 things I learned in my first two years of college
· Blog · 26 min read
Reflections on the ups and downs of my first two years of college, from struggling with writer's block (which is why this post took two years from start to finish) to learning new life skills.