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I'm Ryan Murakami, a Senior Software Engineer focused on AI/ML solutions that are reliable and enjoyable to use. I love turning real-world problems into simple, scalable systems, from early prototypes to production-ready products. I value clear communication and setting a high bar so teammates can do their best thinking. Throughout my career at AxiomHealth, OpenStore, Disney, and Motive, I've built end-to-end AI pipelines, ML platforms, and safety-first tooling. I thrive in fast-paced environments that balance speed and quality, and I enjoy mentoring teammates and shaping engineering culture.…I'm Ryan Murakami, a Senior Software Engineer focused on AI/ML solutions that are reliable and enjoyable to use. I love turning real-world problems into simple, scalable systems, from early prototypes to production-ready products. I value clear communication and setting a high bar so teammates can do their best thinking. Throughout my career at AxiomHealth, OpenStore, Disney, and Motive, I've built end-to-end AI pipelines, ML platforms, and safety-first tooling. I thrive in fast-paced environments that balance speed and quality, and I enjoy mentoring teammates and shaping engineering culture.

Ryan Murakami

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I'm Ryan Murakami, a Senior Software Engineer focused on AI/ML solutions that are reliable and enjoyable to use. I love turning real-world problems into simple, scalable systems, from early prototypes to production-ready products. I value clear communication and setting a high bar so teammates can do their best thinking. Throughout my career at AxiomHealth, OpenStore, Disney, and Motive, I've built end-to-end AI pipelines, ML platforms, and safety-first tooling. I thrive in fast-paced environments that balance speed and quality, and I enjoy mentoring teammates and shaping engineering culture.…I'm Ryan Murakami, a Senior Software Engineer focused on AI/ML solutions that are reliable and enjoyable to use. I love turning real-world problems into simple, scalable systems, from early prototypes to production-ready products. I value clear communication and setting a high bar so teammates can do their best thinking. Throughout my career at AxiomHealth, OpenStore, Disney, and Motive, I've built end-to-end AI pipelines, ML platforms, and safety-first tooling. I thrive in fast-paced environments that balance speed and quality, and I enjoy mentoring teammates and shaping engineering culture.

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I’m Ryan Murakami, a Senior Software Engineer focused on AI/ML solutions that are reliable and enjoyable to use. I love turning real-world problems into simple, scalable systems, from early prototypes to production-ready products. I value clear communication and setting a high bar so teammates can do their best thinking.

Throughout my career at AxiomHealth, OpenStore, Disney, and Motive, I’ve built end-to-end AI pipelines, ML platforms, and safety-first tooling. I thrive in fast-paced environments that balance speed and quality, and I enjoy mentoring teammates and shaping engineering culture.

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Work Experience

AI Automation Developer at AxiomHealth Management

February 1, 2025 - October 30, 2025

Built an autonomous agent that reasoned over hospitalization scenarios and orchestrated the correct sequence of clinical and admin actions. Designed data pipelines to parse referral PDFs and patient calls, reconcile insurance information, and enforce consistency across EHR tables. Integrated RAG pipelines to align patient intake, insurance workflows with payer policies and clinical guidelines. Implemented scheduling algorithms combining Google Maps APIs with clinician availability to optimize travel routes and coverage. Extended LibreChat with custom Python MCP modules, chaining intake, authorization, and scheduling into a unified automated pipeline. Introduced reliability measures including Datadog monitoring, PagerDuty alerts, schema validation, and retry/fallback logic across third-party APIs. Established CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions and Docker incorporating Alembic migrations and Pydantic model validation to enforce schema consistency. Interviewed candidates and led code rev

Senior Software Engineer - ML Platform at OpenStore

February 1, 2025 - February 1, 2025

Led development of a customer support backend for subsidiary Shopify brands, integrating Shopify Admin API, webhooks, and PostgreSQL to manage orders, refunds, and inventory. Fine-tuned BERT models with Hugging Face Transformers and integrated LangChain and GPT/Claude pipelines for ticket classification, retrieval, and automated resolution. Built RAG workflows leveraging pgvector in Postgres for unified SQL, embedding queries, and scaled with Pinecone for low-latency semantic search combined with relational joins. Automated data cleaning and feature extraction workflows with Pandas and dbt, ensuring consistent embeddings across diverse merchant support formats. Created a no-code workflow builder with FastAPI, React/Next.js, enabling merchants to describe automations in plain English. AI parsed requests into validated JSON/YAML workflows, reducing reliance on technical staff. Set up training pipelines on SageMaker with Step Functions that handled drift checks, model evaluation, and safe

Software Developer at The Walt Disney Company

September 1, 2023 - September 1, 2023

Applied BERT based transformers to analyze scripts and subtitles, generating semantic metadata such as themes, tone, keywords for use in personalization. Partnered with data science to combine collaborative filtering with semantic embeddings, improving personalization across Disney+ and internal media catalogs. Prototyped early creative AI tools that generated summaries, promo copy, and thumbnail suggestions. Introduced validation guardrails to align outputs with Disney’s brand voice and compliance requirements, making prototypes production ready. Built MLOps workflows automating retraining pipelines, model versioning, and validation, keeping metadata fresh and aligned with production needs. Deployed scalable ML services with Docker and Kubernetes, integrating seamlessly with Disney’s streaming infrastructure. MAP3: Built metadata pipelines for MAP3, developing CNN models with TensorFlow and PyTorch to tag video frames with characters, props, environments, and mood. Integrated resu

Software Developer at Motive

January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2018

Developed CNN based computer vision models for AI dashcams that detected distracted driving, drowsiness, and unsafe road behaviors in real time. Optimized models with quantization and pruning for low-latency inference on embedded hardware, achieving sub-second processing for in-cab alerts. Built on-device detection for immediate safety interventions, with cloud-based re-analysis for higher-accuracy classification and fleet reporting. Partnered with safety analysts in a human-in-the-loop review process. Curated and labeled real-world driving data to continuously retrain and refine models, reducing false positives over time. Integrated inference outputs into a fleet web dashboard, using SQL joins and aggregation to power safety scorecards and event trend analysis.

Software Engineer Intern at Meetup

January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2016

Migrated frontend from Backbone.js to React. Prototyped location-aware event recommendation widget with early personalization logic using React and Firebase.

Assistant Photographer at Milk Studios

July 1, 2010 - July 1, 2010

Photographer assistant.

Senior Software Engineer - ML Platform at OpenStore

October 1, 2023 - February 1, 2025

Software Developer at The Walt Disney Company

March 1, 2018 - September 1, 2023

Applied BERT-based transformers to analyze scripts and subtitles, generating semantic metadata such as themes, tone, keywords for use in personalization. Partnered with data science to combine collaborative filtering with semantic embeddings, improving personalization across Disney+ and internal media catalogs. Prototyped early creative AI tools that generated summaries, promo copy, and thumbnail suggestions, with validation guardrails ensuring alignment with brand voice and compliance. Built MLOps workflows automating retraining pipelines, model versioning, and validation, keeping metadata fresh and aligned with production needs. Deployed scalable ML services with Docker and Kubernetes, integrating with Disney's streaming infrastructure. Led MAP3 metadata pipelines, developing CNN models to tag video frames with characters, props, environments, and mood, and integrated results into SQL and RDF graphs to support compliance and content search. Scaled Spark and TensorFlow pipelines to pr

Software Developer at Motive

February 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018

Developed CNN-based computer vision models for AI dashcams that detected distracted driving, drowsiness, and unsafe road behaviors in real time. Optimized models with quantization and pruning for low-latency inference on embedded hardware, achieving sub-second processing for in-cab alerts. Built on-device detection with cloud-based re-analysis for higher accuracy. Partnered with safety analysts in a human-in-the-loop review process. Curated and labeled real-world driving data to continuously retrain and refine models, reducing false positives over time. Integrated inference outputs into a fleet web dashboard, using SQL joins and aggregation to power safety scorecards and event trend analysis.

Software Engineer Intern at Meetup

June 1, 2015 - January 1, 2016

Migrated frontend from Backbone.js to React. Prototyped location-aware event recommendation widget with early personalization logic using React and Firebase.

Assistant Photographer at Milk Studios

September 1, 2009 - July 1, 2010

Assisted photographer on shoots, managed lighting and equipment setup, and contributed to photo retouching and studio organization.