Norfolk Southern · Loco Works
01 / 08Mechanical Supervisor, Altoona Locomotive Works
SIGNAL ACQUIRED // PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER · AI-NATIVE DEVELOPER WORKFLOWS · CUSTOMER-FACING ENGINEERING
Ryan
Wilk_
Principal Software Engineer at Comcast — AI Technical Lead on the X1 platform, 10+ years shipping production software. I build AI-native developer workflows and the customer-facing systems they serve. Before this: locomotives, Navy ships, a menu-board startup, Fortune 500 consulting, robot safety controllers, smart TVs. This page is an instrument, and right now it’s measuring you. Check the strip at the top.
> session.init ..................... ok
> observers.attach [scroll, velocity, viewport] ok
> operator.stats [devices: 30,000,000] [open_vulns: −80%] [yrs: 10+] ok
> subject.id = "visitor"
> telemetry live — all readouts real. begin sweep.
BEGIN SWEEP ▼
01 · SIGNAL HISTORY
One career, one trace
Eight events on a single line. Keep scrolling to scrub the cursor through time — each spike is a place where the signal changed. The last one is still transmitting.
02 · ACTIVE SYSTEMS
Things I shipped that stayed shipped
Every panel below is a real system with real users. Channel colors: ■ frontend ■ backend ■ infra ■ ai.
myInkwell
Solo-built production platform: design your characters, get AI-illustrated stories, order them as real hardcover books. I own every layer — prompt iteration, cost/latency tradeoffs, blue/green rollouts, E2E testing, and full production observability: tracing, metrics, alerting. A telemetry page respects a system that reports its own vitals.
- MULTIAI providers, swappable
- 0engineer, every layer
- 2026commissioned
SpendWatch
Multi-tenant household finance, live on the App Store and Google Play — one budget, every phone in the house sees the same numbers — with AI spending coaching, performance charting, cloud functions, and push notifications. Publishing to both stores is automated through GitHub Actions: tag, build, ship.
- 0app stores, live
- Geminicoaching engine
taskr
Cross-platform goal tracker with an AI coach built in — check-ins and plan generation driven by your health data, your goals, and how you’re actually performing. One Flutter codebase, four kinds of screen.
- 0platforms, 1 codebase
- Geminicoaching engine
MCP Tool Server
A locally hosted MCP server feeding custom tools to my AI agents — instrumentation for the instruments. On a telemetry page, this is the panel that matters: the plumbing that lets an agent read the world. Example tool: a resilient weather cache that keeps answering when the upstream API won’t.
- MCPprotocol served
- Localhost: my own rack
Rehuman
Forward-deployed engagement with Accenture’s first entrepreneur-in-residence startup — healthcare AI. I architected the core product: a pipeline ingesting wearable healthcare data into their AI engine, the ETL behind it, and the B2B and B2C portals in front of it.
- 1stEIR startup at accenture
- B2B+B2Cportals shipped
- 2023commissioned
Workflow Manager
JIRA for contractors: bidding and estimation tracking — data entry, dashboards, reports, charting, exports, file attachments. Websockets keep every open dashboard current, so the office and the job site read the same numbers.
- WSlive dashboards
- 2020commissioned
DECOMMISSIONED / STANDBY SYSTEMS · 2018–2025
- ARC-01 SSR Digital Displays real-time menu boards · 5 venues, 2 cities · founder / dev / support DECOMM
- ARC-02 Alpine Knives e-commerce, Stripe + SendGrid — money moves through this one STANDBY
- ARC-03 Brody’s Burgers owner-editable restaurant site — the CMS is his phone STANDBY
- ARC-04 This Site’s Own Rack Node/Express behind nginx, Docker Compose, Let’s Encrypt — self-hosted, worth monitoring ACTIVE
- ARC-05 The Burwell Project collaborative workspace rental control — scheduling, billing, reservations · Angular / Firebase / Stripe STANDBY
03 · CHANNEL MATRIX
Full stack, four channels
Same engineer on every channel. That’s the point — I’ve owned whole systems alone, so I know what each layer costs the others.
CH-A · FRONTEND
Interface
Where I live day to day — I’ve led UI teams from telemetry dashboards to smart-TV apps to robot-fleet portals, so state management and render performance are the job, not a nice-to-have. NgRx re-architectures and D3 instrument panels are home turf.
CH-B · BACKEND
Service
APIs, data models, and the integrations that move money and mail — from Stripe checkouts real businesses depend on to the mission-critical Java migration I’m steering right now.
CH-C · INFRA
Substrate
From my own rack to two clouds: containers, orchestration, reverse proxies, TLS — plus the pipelines that ship it all, and the rollout patterns (blue/green, canary) that keep shipping boring.
CH-D · AI
Inference
The channel the whole board watches now. At Comcast I lead AI-native developer workflows adopted company-wide — vulnerability-fix agents, AI-assisted migrations, generated tests. At home, the same discipline ships myInkwell and taskr. I integrate models the way I integrate any unreliable upstream: carefully, with fallbacks and a human in the loop.
04 · CALIBRATION RECORDS
Instrument certified
FORMAL CALIBRATION · MOST RECENT FIRST
- CAL-03 Johns Hopkins University graduate coursework, computer science 4.0 GPA 2022
- CAL-02 TU Darmstadt · Germany additional B.S. 2016
- CAL-01 Virginia Tech B.S. mechanical engineering 2012
05 · OPEN CHANNEL
Transmit
If you’re building something worth monitoring — or you just want to argue about RxJS operators — the channel is open.
$contact --via email
>software@ryanwilk.com
$contact --via github
>github.com/rjw1428
$contact --via linkedin
>linkedin.com/in/rjw1428
$contact --via web
>ryanwilk.com