Ryan Klapper: Architecting Intelligent Systems for the Enterprise
Senior AI Engineer specializing in production-grade LLM applications, agentic workflows, and scalable automation. Turning research into reliable business value.
Work Experience
A timeline of production deployments and leadership
Forward Deployed AI Engineer
AI FocusedSenior AI Engineer
AI Focused- Driving adoption of agentic workflows for Fortune 500 clients.
- Leading enterprise Generative AI implementations and strategy.
- Architecting Agentic Solutions using Snowflake Cortex and Snowflake Cortex Agents.
- Involved in all aspects of the AI lifecycle, from architecture and design to implementation and deployment.
AI Engineer
AI Focused- Championed Snowflake Cortex adoption across Financial Services, Retail & CPG, Industrial, and Healthcare accounts, turning a flagship AI proof-of-concept into a large delivery program and a featured story at Snowflake Summit 2025.
- Built award-winning GenAI products: AI Engineer for MAMBA (2024 AFTA "Best New Technology") and architect of agentic workflows that secured the 2025 CIO 100 award.
- Architected/Delivered 25+ GenAI projects with Snowflake Cortex, AWS Bedrock, and Microsoft Azure for organizations in Logistics, Financial Services, Sports & Entertainment, Healthcare and Manufacturing.
- Led an internal AI Bootcamp, mentoring 20+ consultants; many graduates are now delivering AI work on client projects.
Analytics Engineer 2
AI Focused- Spearheaded an innovative AI initiative, playing a pivotal co-leadership role in automating data migrations and pioneering modernization efforts, driving the evolution of data management practices.
- Conceptualized and developed advanced Generative AI agents utilizing technologies such as Python, LangChain, and RAG (Retriever-Augmented Generation), automating workflows and enhancing operational efficiency.
- Developed and deployed 50+ AI-integrated Streamlit applications, which led to more data-driven decision-making.
- Spearheaded multiple AI implementation projects, driving innovation and efficiency for diverse client portfolios.
Analytics Engineer
- Designed and implemented over 50 scalable and performant data pipelines using dbt models in Snowflake, enabling efficient data processing and analytics.
- Automated and optimized model development processes with Python, improving operational accuracy and significantly enhancing workflow efficiency.
- Streamlined analytics operations by optimizing 100+ SQL queries, reducing query execution time by 350% and expediting the analytics lifecycle.
- Spearheaded advanced data transformation initiatives, leveraging dbt and Snowflake to create reusable and reliable models that support business objectives.
Data Scientist
- Gathered and combined external data sources with 1,000 to 200,000 records from different APIs into one database for reports, analysis, and forecasting.
- Wrote Python scripts to automate reporting, problem-solving, metrics development, geocoding, analysis, and API development.
- Collaborated cross-functionally and with C-Suite to identify trends, improve costs, discover opportunities, and improve current processes.
- Created C-Suite Executive dashboard used in Executive/Shareholder meetings to efficiently showcase impact with validated data.
- Increased NPS by creating an NPS Dashboard and developing a data pipeline for all surveys sent out to customers.
- Developed Power BI ecosystem and dashboards to help stakeholders understand teams and data, and executives to strategize goals.
- Built and maintained Power BI reports, organized workspaces, and addressed individual/team requests.
Featured Projects
Award-winning builds and technical deep dives
ArchitectureDiagram.ai
AI Architecture Diagram Generator
An AI-powered platform that transforms natural language descriptions into professional architecture diagrams. Describe your system in plain English and get editable Mermaid flowcharts rendered as polished visuals — supporting microservices, cloud infrastructure, API flows, data pipelines, and more.
Design Arena
LLM Design Benchmarking Platform
A blind side-by-side comparison platform for evaluating LLM design capabilities. Users generate interfaces from prompts, vote on the best results, and reveal the winning models (GPT-5, Claude 4.5 Sonnet, Gemini 3 Pro). Includes a realtime leaderboard and arena viewer.
MAMBA
Enterprise AI Platform
Secured the 2024 AFTA Best New Technology award. Built with Snowflake Cortex, featuring agentic workflows for automated data analysis and insights generation at scale.
Agentic Workflows
Autonomous Enterprise Systems
Architected agentic AI workflows that earned the 2025 CIO 100 award. Enables autonomous task execution and decision-making across enterprise data pipelines.
Technical Stack
AI Engineering
Building and deploying LLM applications
Data Architecture
Scalable data pipelines and modeling
Full Stack Dev
Modern web applications
DevOps & Tools
Production deployment and CI/CD
Publications & Research
The Future of Supply Chains Depends on Collaboration Between AI and Dedicated Teams
Discover how AI and expert teams can collaborate to build resilience in the face of volatility and supercharge the future of supply chains.
Snowflake Cortex Agents: An AI Data Assistant for Complex Tasks
Explore how Snowflake Cortex Agents act as AI data assistants capable of automating highly complex data workflows.
Snowflake Cortex Search: Unlocking Intelligence in Your Text Data
Looking to unlock intelligence in your text data? Snowflake Cortex Search is your solution. This article explores how to use this powerful tool to extract insights and drive business growth.
Surveying the AI Agent Landscape
An exploration of AI agents, from their origins to current implementations. This article examines various agent architectures and how they're being applied in real-world business scenarios.
Function Calling with LLMs
A deep dive into function calling capabilities with Large Language Models. This article explains how function calling enables LLMs to interact with external systems and APIs to complete complex tasks.
Supercharging Your PDF Workflow with Claude by Anthropic
A practical guide to leveraging Claude AI for optimizing PDF document processing, extraction, and analysis, with implementation examples and performance insights.
Turning Words into SQL: Leveraging Streamlit and OpenAI's Structured Output
How to build natural language to SQL applications using Streamlit and OpenAI, with a focus on ensuring accuracy and reliability in query generation.
The Future of LLMs: How Groq's LPU Technology Is Disrupting the Status Quo
Analysis of Groq's innovative LPU technology and its impact on the large language model landscape, examining performance improvements and potential industry shifts.
Education
Chapman University
B.S. in Data Analytics
Minor in Entrepreneurship
January 2017 - May 2020