I plan, architect, build and ship developer tools and the integrations nobody wants to write twice.
- 🧈 Building ButterStack - dev tools for game studios. Live on AWS Marketplace, FTR-approved.
- 🤖 Consulting on agentic AI and engineering systems (MCP, LLM agents, Claude/OpenAI/Gemini/etc) via ChiefTechAdvisor (CTA)
- 🎮 Previously: partner engineer @ Affirm, sales engineering @ Snowflake, gaming/M&E evangelist @ Perforce (AWS Games, Azure/XBox, Google Games partnerships)
- 🛠️ Side quests: macOS simple viewer apps, personal AI (A.I.D.A), fitness-data MCP servers, home automation
- ⛷️ FirstChair - fun vibe coding ski pass & trip tracker
- 🔗 ryanlitalien.com - Website with assorted works, projects and consulting options
- 🏔️ Greater Boston based. Skiing/boarding, biking (all kinds), hiking, building in the woods and cozy campfire cocktails.
Hire me for: production-izing your vibe coded apps, agentic AI that works in prod, and upgrading your game-dev pipelines.





