Ryan Daigle
Building the systems, and teams, 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.
Based in North Carolina, ready to travel for the on-site requirement — the remote-plus-in-person pattern is one I've held in past roles.
It is the interaction of the model, the harness, AND the environment that matter. While any one can improve in isolation, the best platforms account for all three holistically.
At work:
Leading Glide
into an agentic era
- Role
- Technical Team Lead, AI
- Team
- Multiple direct-report eng pods
- 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 our engineering teams.
- 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.
On the side:
An agentic site builder
for businesses
- Status
- Live
- Input
- A conversation
- Output
- A designed, published site
- Proof
- This page is its work
Ember is an agentic website builder for non-technical users and businesses. 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. Non-technical users can just type and a full website for their business gets built.
Ember sessions are continuously compacted for infinite lifespan while keeping design cues and business details accessible throughout.
Ember is an exercise in pairing efficient models within a constrained environment to achieve strong results within an economically viable cost structure. Embracing constraints can be a differentiator.
- 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 engineering teams; 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.
- 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 engineering pods, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Grew Engineering from a small team into a full department, owning the structure, processes, and efficacy of the organization.
- Delivered foundational payment processing products with an outside-in, customer-driven approach.
- 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.
- Degree
- B.S. Computer Science
- University
- North Carolina State University
- Years
- 1996 — 2000
- Honors
- summa cum laude
- English
- Native
- French
- Toddler
- Italian
- Infant
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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