Engineering Manager · Agent Runtime Platform
Ryan Daigle
Building the systems that build the systems
The engineering leader behind Glide's re-architecture into an agentic platform. Founder of Ember, an agentic website builder that turns a conversation into a designed, published site. Now looking to apply that experience to the Agent Runtime Platform at Anthropic.
"The frontier has moved past the model — it now lives in the systems around it: the runtimes where agents do real engineering and knowledge work, reliably, securely, at scale."
Three years of building agents, distilled
NowLeading a platform
Leading a platform
into an agentic era.
- Role
- Technical Team Lead, AI
- Team
- Six engineers, direct
- Bet
- Re-architected mid-flight
- Result
- New platform in 72 days
Since 2025 I have led AI engineering for Glide's re-architecture from a traditional no-code platform into an AI-enabled, agentic business software platform. I proposed the architecture, implemented the initial prototype — which became production — and own the agentic runtime subsystem, working alongside six engineers.
- Proposed and drove two rapid architecture evolutions; the second was a deliberate bet, and it shipped the new platform in 72 days.
- Re-aligned how the entire engineering organization works with coding agents — a 3–5× increase in output without losing usability, security, or design.
- Organized a high-ambiguity transformation across engineering, product, design, and leadership, turning an ambitious vision into milestones teams could ship.
- Worked with the maintainers of an open agent framework to improve agent robustness in production — durability, state recovery, and graceful failure.
Featured WorkAn agentic site builder
An agentic site builder
for normal people
- Status
- Live
- Input
- A conversation
- Output
- A designed, published site
- Proof
- This page is its work
Ember is an agentic website builder. A conversation goes in; a designed, written, and deployed site comes out. The agent does the work of an entire studio — brand, layout, page structure, copy, imagery, verification, publication — without a human touching the code.
It is a long-horizon system. Ember holds a design brief as its source of truth, keeps persistent context across sessions, and compiles and checks every page before anything ships. Thousands of people have published real sites with it. This page is its work.
For me, Ember is the sharpest possible probe of agent infrastructure — what an agent needs to do real knowledge work: skills, tools, durable state, verification, and a runtime that recovers when things go wrong. Everything I believe about agent platforms, I learned building it.
ProjectsShipped from StableModels
2026EmberAgentic website builder — a conversation in, a designed and published site out. The signature system.Live2026GitForkA zero-provisioning Git service for agents — ephemeral repos that materialize on demand and auto-expire.Live2025ImageGPTGenerate and serve AI images from a single URL — no API keys, no SDK, no backend.Live2023SheetGPTOne of the first AI integrations in the Google Workspace Marketplace, bringing AI to millions of spreadsheet users.Exited
VisionWhat I believe about
What I believe about
agent infrastructure.
- Durability is the product. An agent runtime must engineer retries, fallbacks, circuit breakers, and state recovery into the platform. An agent that loses its work is not productive.
- Primitives, not monoliths. Identity, credentials, storage, compute — composable and reusable across every agent, so new agents come up quickly and safely.
- The runtime decides. Routing, judging, and evaluation belong in the platform, not bolted on. A platform doesn't just pass calls through — it decides.
- Measure everything. Cost in every response, A/B evaluation with LLM-as-judge, live-traffic replay. You can't improve what you can't measure.
- Security is a platform property. Ephemeral, credential-managed, sandboxed environments — the agent's world should disappear when the work is done.
The CVFull record
Technical Team Lead, AIGlide2025 — Present
AI Platform for Business Applications · Cary, NC
- Lead AI engineering for Glide's re-architecture from a no-code platform into an AI-enabled, agentic business software platform — from traditional app building to an AI-assisted, vibe-coded development experience.
- Drove foundational technical decisions behind two rapid architecture evolutions, arriving at the agentic platform released in June 2026.
- Own the agentic runtime: defined the architecture for agentic app generation and the agentic runtime model, and built the early code that became production — the agentic loop, deployment harness, and core engineering primitives.
- Manage and work alongside six engineers; led the organization's re-alignment around coding agents — a 3–5× increase in engineering output.
- Organized the transformation across engineering, product, design, and leadership into clear deliverables and incremental milestones.
Technical Team Lead, Core & PlatformGlide2023 — 2025
The foundational infrastructure behind a no-code application platform.
- Led the Platform and Core Engineering teams — the foundational infrastructure, engineering primitives, and core product systems behind a no-code platform used by thousands of businesses.
- Managed multiple pods of two to five engineers, turning ambiguous platform goals into de-risked execution plans with incremental milestones.
- Drove modernization across infrastructure and core systems — internal developer platform investment, microservices decomposition, a large-scale database migration, and reliability, performance, and cost-efficiency initiatives.
FounderStableModels.ai2023 — Present
A personal incubator exploring agentic systems design and bringing LLM capabilities to everyday business workflows.
- Ember — an AI-native content site builder that turns natural conversation into fully designed, published websites: no dashboard, no theme browsers, no CMS.
- GitFork — a zero-provisioning Git service for AI agents: ephemeral repos that materialize on demand and auto-expire.
- ImageGPT — generate, serve, and cache AI images directly from an image URL: no API keys, no SDKs, no backend.
- SheetGPT — put AI in Google Sheets; among the first to support OpenAI in the Google Workspace Marketplace. Exited September 2024.
FounderFlywheel Equity2018 — Present
Private equity — managing commercial real estate investment partnerships.
CTOSpreedly2019 — 2020
Universal payments API · Raleigh-Durham, NC
- Technical executive responsible for the Engineering organization and the long-term technical health of a payment gateway processing billions in transaction volume.
- Worked with the executive team to transition the company from a startup to a venture-funded, accountable organization.
VP of Engineering · Director of EngineeringSpreedly2015 — 2019
Engineering leadership for a payment processing platform.
- Grew Engineering from a team of a few engineers to a department of 30+, owning the structure, processes, and efficacy of the organization.
- Delivered foundational payment processing products with an outside-in, customer-driven approach.
Senior Software EngineerSpreedly2014 — 2015
Early employee — helped deliver payment processing products with a customer-driven approach.
Partner Advocate · Senior Software EngineerHeroku2011 — 2014
The platform as a service · Remote
- Built and operated the Ruby on Rails services that comprised the Heroku platform, working in small teams across engineering, product, and documentation.
- Established and grew the Heroku partner program from zero to over one hundred member companies, managing the indirect sales channel.
Earlier engineering leadershipY|Factorial · Bracket7 · Alterthought · Health Decisions · TIBCO2000 — 2011
CTO, Y|Factorial (2007–2011) & Co-Founder, Bracket7 (2009–2011) · Lead Engineer, Alterthought (2004–2007) · Health Decisions (2001–2004) · Software Engineer, TIBCO (2000–2001).
Education
- Degree
- B.S. Computer Science
- University
- North Carolina State University
- Years
- 1996 — 2000
- Honors
- summa cum laude
Languages
- English
- Native
- French
- Toddler
- Italian
- Infant
Correspondence
Let's talk about agents
Three years of building agents, and the infrastructure they run on — I'd like to bring both to the Agent Runtime Platform at Anthropic. Find me on LinkedIn and X, or take the résumé with you.
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