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With 10+ years of experience, I am a seasoned restaurant and hospitality consultant who excels at blending culinary creativity with operational expertise to drive business success. My unique background spans across food and beverage operations, recipe development, business management, and culinary innovation, making me a versatile asset to any hospitality project. Professional Highlights: • COO & Culinary Innovator: Led multiple brands, including a successful pie and cookie shop, and a multi-location emerging franchise. I’ve developed award-winning dessert recipes, streamlined operations, and fostered positive work cultures that drive both profitability and team satisfaction. • Food & Beverage Operations: Proven track record in optimizing kitchen workflows, implementing cost control measures, and enhancing menu offerings to align with market trends and customer preferences. I specialize in transforming culinary concepts into profitable business ventures. • Recipe Development & Culinary Creativity: Expertise in crafting innovative and market-winning recipes, ensuring each dish not only meets but exceeds quality standards. My background in Michelin-starred kitchens has honed my skills in precision and flavor balance. • Strategic Business Management: Adept at creating and executing strategic plans that drive growth and efficiency. I’ve successfully launched new culinary concepts, developed comprehensive employee training programs, and improved operational efficiency across all levels. • Kitchen Design & Equipment Selection: Experienced in designing functional and efficient kitchens tailored to business needs, including selecting the right equipment to optimize performance and cost-effectiveness. • Training & Development: Skilled in developing employee training programs that enhance skills, boost morale, and ensure consistent quality across the board. My approach is focused on continuous improvement and professional growth. Why Work With Me? I bring a unique combination of culinary artistry and business acumen to the table. Whether you’re looking to develop new recipes, optimize your kitchen operations, or launch a new culinary concept, I have the skills and experience to help you achieve your goals. My approach is collaborative, and I’m committed to delivering results that exceed expectations. I’m passionate about helping hospitality businesses thrive by improving their culinary offerings and operational efficiency. Let’s work together to create something exceptional. Specialties Include: • Food & Beverage Operations • Recipe Development & Menu Design • Strategic Business Management • Kitchen Design & Equipment Selection • Employee Training & Development • Operational Efficiency & Cost Control • Culinary Creativity & Innovation I look forward to partnering with you to elevate your hospitality business!

I'll help you turn AI product ideas, rough MVPs, and vibe-coded prototypes into real production software and make sure it's a great experience. Frankly I'm not the budget option, I'm one of the top devs on the platform. I know this because I do a lot of hiring, working through applications from hundreds of software developers a month, and finding good talent is nigh-impossible. If you just want to have a great experience and have your project handled correctly, I'm your guy. The clients I’m usually the best fit for are: • You built something in Lovable, v0, Replit, Cursor, Bolt, or another AI coding tool, but now it needs to actually work. This means cleaning up and implementing things like auth, payments, database design, file uploads, background jobs, deployment, security, etc. • You want to automate something with AI, or add AI to an existing app in a way that actually improves the product. I'll tell you right away what's actually achievable with the current state of the art for document parsing, multimodal analysis, chat interfaces, agentic workflows, automations, content generation, scoring, recommendations, internal tools, or API-connected workflows and implement it for you. • You need someone senior enough to scope the product from beginning to end, challenge bad assumptions, lead and/or hire other developers, review architecture, communicate clearly between non-technical owners and the technical team, and still personally build the hard parts directly. My usual stack includes Laravel, React, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Redis, Supabase, Tailwind, Stripe, OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, Replicate, Fal, ElevenLabs, n8n, Vercel, AWS, Cloudflare, DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and Coolify . Where I’m strongest: AI SaaS MVPs I build AI-enabled products from concept through launch, including user flows, database design, API integrations, background processing, admin tooling, billing, deployment, and iteration after real user feedback. The goal is to get you to market as quickly as possible with something that works reliably. Vibe-code rescue AI coding tools are great for putting together a demo or a mockup. They are not great at building reliable software. They create issues with architecture, security, maintainability, edge cases, and general reliability or basic functionality. I help turn those prototypes into stable apps you can actually launch. AI integrations and automations I build workflows using OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, and other providers, including multi-step LLM pipelines, structured outputs, analysis and generation of documents, images, audio and video, vector search, tool calling, and API-connected automations. Technical leadership I work as the technical lead on many projects for my clients: helping define scope, breaking down milestones, setting timelines, hiring and coordinating other developers, reviewing code, making architecture decisions, and keeping the project moving while prioritizing the business goals at all times. Full-stack product development I can handle frontend, backend, database, deployment, and technical product decisions. No matter how technical you are or the state of your project, I'll either be able to help you get this project out the door, or tell you right off the bat if I'm not the right fit in order to not waste your time. How I work: You’ll communicate with me directly. I’m a clear and straightforward communicator, proactive about risks, willing to offer suggestions for improvement along the way, and focused on getting the product to a usable version quickly. I use the latest AI tooling in my development workflows to accelerate and improve product development, but I do not send clients generic AI-written slop in any of our communication. If you have an AI product, SaaS MVP, automation workflow, or half-working prototype that needs to become real software, send me a message and I’ll tell you what I think it will take. A bit more about me: I'm originally from Southern California and now live in Beacon, NY with my wife. When I'm not working, you'll find me taking day trips into NYC to get the best bagels on Earth, exploring Hudson Valley towns and trails, snowboarding in winter when I can, or traveling abroad doing the digital nomad thing, sometimes for years at a time. We tend to gravitate towards Europe, Southeast Asia, and Latin America.

I am a professional chef, recipe developer, and food writer with over a decade of experience in culinary creation, product development, and storytelling. My background includes leading restaurant kitchens, developing approachable and elevated recipes, and creating food content for publications, brands, and digital platforms. In addition to my culinary work, I specialize in AI training and evaluation within the food domain. I provide expert insights on cooking techniques, ingredient behavior, safety logic, and recipe accuracy for companies developing food-related models. My work includes data annotation, prompt evaluation, content labeling, and quality review of AI-generated culinary outputs. Whether I’m developing new recipes, testing and refining existing ones, or providing culinary expertise for AI systems, I bring precision, creativity, and clear communication to every project. I am comfortable working independently or collaborating with cross-functional teams to meet deadlines and deliver high-quality results. Services I offer: Recipe development & recipe testing Food writing, blog articles, and editorial content Culinary consulting & menu development AI training, data annotation, and model evaluation (food domain) Prompt writing and quality assurance for culinary outputs Social media and content support for food brands I approach every project with professionalism, attention to detail, and a genuine commitment to helping brands create credible, engaging, and reliable food content. I look forward to supporting your next recipe, content, or AI development project.

Ryan is a certified solutions architect and engineer with almost two decades of experience and a proven track record spanning several industries. His clients range from scrappy startups to elite global banks and everything in between. He is a member of the AWS Partner Network and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional. Equally comfortable in Azure and Google Cloud, Ryan has significant experience spearheading projects in the enterprise technology space. Recent projects include the AWS hybrid solutions architecture of a new physical facility for the world's largest printing company, spearheading the recent databricks migration for a FAANG technology company, and the complete deployment and management of technology infrastructure for the data science division of a US cellular carrier, Please note that although I am sometimes available for emergency situations, I am usually working on several projects at any given time and usually cannot accommodate requirements that need to be fulfilled yesterday. Provider Expertise: AWS/Azure/GCP Specialties: DevOps methodologies, team leadership, infrastructure as code Automation and Orchestration: CI/CD, Bazel, hermetic builds, containerization Compliance expert: HIPAA, PCI, GDPR Keyword alphabet soup: Databricks, Data Lake, Data Science, SageMaker, MLOps, Machine Learing, Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, TensorFlow, Big Data, Data Lake, Data Warehouse, Blockchain, Machine Learning, Chef, Puppet, CloudFormation, Docker, Bash, Powershell, Python, Jenkins, Packer, Atlas, Hadoop, NoSQL, Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, MySQL, RightScale, OpenStack, Nginx, DNS, Apache, Ubuntu, Centos, RedHat, Nagios, AWS-CLI, HAProxy, ELB, VPN, Redshift, Glacier, S3, Shell, Git, OpsWorks, JIRA, RabbitMQ, NewRelic, Digital Ocean, BitBucket, etc...

I am a multidisciplinary designer with expertise in graphic design, user experience, content development and design-based strategy. For over 10 years I have helped businesses, organizations and global brands define and communicate their unique voice through elegant, thoughtful design solutions. My favorite projects are intellectually challenging, visually creative and are treated as a partnership between client and designer. People love to work with me because of my rigorous process and attention to detail. At Johnson & Johnson I worked as Graphic Design Manager for the Cross-Sector Innovation Design group—a team of design researchers, strategists and industrial designers brought together to improve patient experience through human-centered design. We collaborated with business partners across all three J&J sectors to create holisitic and intuitive user experiences with lasting, measureable impact. As a Senior Designer at New York branding agency Siegel+Gale, I was a key team member in the large-scale rebranding of international software company SAP and American health insurance company Aetna. I also worked on ad campaigns for Google and Sony PlayStation while freelancing at Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo, and designed exhibition catalogues for the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Guggenheim Museum at Heavy Meta Design in New York. I look forward to working with you! Portfolio link upon request.

With years of experience filming both inspiring human stories and promotional material for businesses small and large, I am at your full disposal for all filming, editing, and photography needs.