Ryan Melzer

Ryan Melzer is a Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Upwork, specializing in ML infrastructure. They previously held positions as a Senior Software Engineer at Northrop Grumman and had internships at Rincon Research Corporation and Optiver. Ryan has significant experience in developing algorithms and systems for machine learning applications, including state-of-the-art results in synthetic aperture radar automatic target recognition at Sandia National Laboratories. They hold a Master of Science in Computer Science and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science, both from the University of Arizona, where they also contributed as a teaching assistant and research assistant. Additionally, Ryan is an accomplished music composer, creating soundtracks for various media.