Colby Ryan

Colby Ryan

Software Engineer

New York City, NY

About

I'm a software engineer at Panoramix Financial in New York City. I graduated from Union College in 2024, where I double-majored in Computer Science and Mathematics.

At Panoramix, I helped lead the development of FacetAI, an AI-powered assistant we announced at the T3 conference. I've also built full-stack features like a Retrieval-Augmented Generation bot, a nearest-neighbor search system for retrieving embedded text, and tools for managing investment models.

I also spent a gap year in Barcelona, Spain after high school, where I got my TEFL certification and taught English.

In my free time, I enjoy building mobile apps, traveling, and I play soccer, trivia with friends, and chess.

Projects

  • Mello Life

    Gamified habit-tracking/productivity app with daily challenges and streak-based rewards. Full stack built with React Native, TypeScript, Supabase, RevenueCat.

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  • Mathematica

    Math-based iOS app; handled entire codebase and App Store publishing independently.

    App Store →
  • Mathematics Thesis

    Investigated properties, theorems, and structures of hypergraphs, an extension of graph theory where edges may link multiple vertices simultaneously.

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  • Computer Science Thesis

    Compared two leading chess engines on how they evaluated intricately designed chess positions.

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Experience

  1. Panoramix Financial

    Software Engineer

    Aug 2024 – Present

    • Led development of FacetAI, announced at the T3 conference and now live
    • Developed and maintained full-stack financial applications using C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server, and modern web technologies
    • Engineered a nearest-neighbor search system for embedded text retrieval using multivector calculus to improve response precision
    • Built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation bot from documentation to assist clients
    • Created user-query tracking in a SQL database to understand common user errors
    • Built pages for users to create/edit investment models, asset classes, user-defined fields, and more
  2. PanAgora Asset Management logo

    PanAgora Asset Management

    Data Science Intern

    Summer 2023

    • Wrote Python scripts connecting to the FBI API to extract, transform, and load data into a SQL server for Portfolio Manager
    • Transitioned a daily data-diagnostic email tracking security performance into a full-stack interactive webpage
  3. TandemAI logo

    TandemAI

    Software Engineer Intern

    Summer 2022

    • Automated fio storage testing on an HPC cluster
    • Created flexible scripts to test storage bandwidth/latency; graphed results with matplotlib

Education

  1. Union College logo

    Union College

    B.S. Computer Science & Mathematics (double major) · Schenectady, NY

    Sept 2020 – June 2024

    • Elected Class Vice President, Theta Delta Chi Social Chair, Philosophy Club Member
    • Completed undergraduate theses in both Computer Science and Mathematics
  2. TEFL Iberia

    TEFL Certification & English Instructor · Barcelona, Spain

    Sept 2019 – March 2020

    • Taught private English classes of all levels part-time
    • Learned conversational Spanish during an immersive gap year abroad
Resume