Ryan Burgoyne

Email Address
[email protected]
Phone Number
(480) 310-9304
Location
Boulder, CO
LinkedIn Profile
linkedin.com/in/ryansburgoyne

Work Experience

  • Company Name
    Skyglass
    Employment Dates
    November 2021—Present
    Title
    Founder
    Location
    Boulder, CO
    • Created Skyglass, a virtual production app enabling Hollywood-grade visual effects on iPhone using AI and Unreal Engine in the cloud (demo video).
    • Secured $700K in funding and graduated from Techstars NYC 2024.
    • Led a team of 3, scaling to 95K downloads and $6K MRR.
    • Integrated machine learning models for background removal, environment generation, and relighting.
    • Architected and implemented the full application stack, including:
      • iOS app:
        • Swift
        • SwiftUI
        • ARKit
        • WebRTC
        • Metal
      • Cloud render service:
        • Unreal Engine
        • C++
        • Pixar USD
        • Kubernetes
        • AWS
      • Web app:
        • Swift (Vapor)
        • HTML
        • Tailwind
        • AlpineJS
  • Company Name
    Apple
    Employment Dates
    May 2015—October 2021
    Title
    Software Development Engineer
    Location
    Sunnyvale, CA
    • Helped kick off the Vision Pro project as one of the first engineers to come on board.
    • Co-invented the visionOS gaze-and-tap user interface; filed three patents.
    • Served as a technical leader on the Reality Composer team from first concept to successful launch, empowering millions of developers with an intuitive 3D design tool.
  • Company Name
    Metaio
    Employment Dates
    January 2014—May 2015
    Title
    Research Engineer
    Location
    Plano, TX
    • Integrated novel depth-camera tracking and reconstruction research into the leading AR SDK used by more than 100K developers.
    • Worked with major brands to build AR-powered experiences.

Education

  • University Name
    Arizona State University
    Graduation Date
    December 2013
    Degree
    B.S., Computer Science
    Location
    Tempe, AZ
    • Graduated summa cum laude with 3.9 GPA.
    • Capstone project: "Statistical Analysis Learning through Augmented Reality"

Skills

Programming Languages

  • Swift
  • C++
  • JavaScript/TypeScript
  • Python
  • C#
  • Objective-C

Frameworks and SDKs

  • iOS
  • SwiftUI
  • ARKit
  • Metal
  • WebRTC
  • WebGPU
  • Unreal Engine
  • Unity

Cloud and DevOps

  • AWS
  • Docker
  • Kubernetes

Spoken and Signed Languages

  • English (native)
  • American Sign Language (fluent)
  • Cambodian (fluent)
  • Dutch (conversational)