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Researches first.
Looks at what's out there before building anything. If something good exists, we use it.
Co-founder · Executive Outlier
Ryan Reid
I bring it to life. Sam's idea goes in; a tool that works, holds up and stays up comes out. Every line of Luster, from the camera to the servers, plus the systems we run for clients.
In the lab
What Ryan brings.
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Builds it to last.
The parts nobody sees: what it runs on, what keeps it safe, and what keeps it standing.
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Tests until it holds.
AI rarely gives the same answer twice. Nothing ships on one good run.
The road here
From taking things apart to building them.
2014
Security first
Started teaching myself cybersecurity: Raspberry Pis, Linux and Kali, taking things apart to see how they break.
2017
Machine learning
Started studying machine learning, years before it was everywhere.
2020
Teaching robotics
Taught robotics to elementary students for a year with an education startup.
2021
Teaching physics
Taught physics classes for a year. Explaining hard things simply is still most of the job.
2022
Go Further Group, round one
Met Sam and joined Go Further Group to build his app, Risk. Started building with AI the month ChatGPT came out.
2023
Video Copilot
Three years building internal tools for a visual effects studio: Cinema 4D and Houdini tools, render and processing pipelines, and visual effects work.
Aug 2025
Evil Genius Labs
Started the lab and Luster with Sam. First commit August 2025.
Jun 2026
Luster ships
On the App Store ten months after the first commit, then cut the cost of every photo by 28% with one model migration.
2026
Director of Technology
Back at Go Further Group, running its cloud, security and systems.
From the workbench
What I build for fun.
Steam Deck
An AI that sees your game
Hold two buttons, ask a question, and it looks at your screen and answers out loud.
Research
Memory for AI
Lets an AI keep what matters, strengthen it with use and forget the rest, the way people do.
Security
Breaking things safely
Lab tools that let an AI run real security tests, and find exposed passwords before someone else does.
Home lab
A data center at home
A rack of servers for running AI locally and testing ideas before they touch anything real.
Bring us a problem
What's broken?
Tell us. We'll tell you how we'd fix it.