Ryan Irelan

Building software products.
Making company knowledge useful.

I’m a partner at Pine Works, where we design and build custom software products. We also help companies connect information across their systems so people can find answers and get work done through AI tools and agents.

I bring hands-on development and technical leadership to that work, choosing the tools that fit the problem and building software people can depend on.

Work with me at Pine Works More about me

Former VP Technology at Happy Cog. I’ve trained developers at NASA and worked with clients including Stanford University, Ben & Jerry’s, and Papa John’s.

Ryan descending a sunny, rocky trail at the Sky Island 25k race
Sky Island 25k · 2024

Pine Works

Software product development and practical AI integration, connecting business systems with the tools people use to find information and take action.

pineworks.co

CraftQuest

The independent developer education platform I founded in 2018. A place to share experience and make complex ideas understandable.

craftquest.io

pineworks.dev

Small tools, prototypes, and experiments from Pine Works.

pineworks.dev

A few recent thoughts.

All writing

Nineteen Seventy Five

A year of collecting records from the year I was born.

Making Debugging Visible

What if fixing a bug made something happen on screen?

Runsheet

A running-club problem became a small software project.