Ryan Porter

Our team has been working together for over a decade, and we have been working on AI solutions for years now. The Anthus name is the only new thing, as we fully focus on the intersection of software solutions and artificial intelligence.

Formerly with Hakkasan Group, Angel Management Group, and Venue Driver in an evolving role with the same venture.

• Pioneering Technical Strategy: Developed and operated a critical ticketing system evolving over 14 years into a comprehensive platform encompassing reservation, guest list, and artist booking management, pivotal for business operations across various stakeholder domains.
• Seamless Transition and Growth: Managed the system's seamless transition through corporate acquisitions, maintaining operational excellence and high availability, processing as much as $64 million in revenue per month with no major incidents.
• DevOps and Agile Leadership: Championed a DevOps culture, promoting rapid iteration, continuous improvement, and agile methodologies, aligning closely with business needs and fostering a responsive, collaborative IT environment.
• Longevity and Adaptation: Adapted the platform through shifting market conditions and technological paradigms, from early-stage monolithic structures to a modern serverless distributed architecture, passing AWS Well-Architected audits by multinational corporations.

Formerly with Angel Management Group, and Venue Driver in an evolving role with the same venture.

• Scalable System Leadership: Continued advancement of a high-revenue ticketing system, emphasizing scalable, fault-tolerant infrastructure on AWS, embodying the Well-Architected Framework principles.
• Data Integration Initiative: Initiated and delivered a successful enterprise data warehouse project, integrating diverse data systems to support analytics, Salesforce CRM, Marketo and Salesforce Marketing Cloud for marketing operations.

Formerly with Venue Driver in an evolving role with the same venture.

• Strategic Technology Expansion: Continuation and expansion of existing role after Angel Management Group acquired Venue Driver.

Startup Technology Foundation: Built and managed all technology infrastructure for a hospitality-focused technology startup, evolving the company into a major event ticketing provider processing substantial monthly revenue.

• Leadership and Technical Training: Directed all aspects of technology including software development, web operations, technical hiring, and training programs, laying the foundation for eventual acquisition and growth.

Entered into a joint venture with Nick McCabe to develop a nightlife production and media company in Miami Beach, FL. The successful CoolJunkie.com website with its interactive forums was a pillar of the Miami Beach nightlife scene for years in the days before social media. The company also produced events like the BBC Radio One Miami party during the Winter Music Conference, and events from artists like Pete Tong, Cedric Gervais and many others.

Started a small software product company after graduating, based around a web mail application that was popular in the early days of the web, in the days of WebTV and AOL. Developed, licensed and supported a PERL-based web mail application that was used by thousands of users, and a Java-based enterprise web mail product.

Worked as an undergraduate research assistant for Dr. Gerhard X. Ritter and Dr. Mark S. Schmalz helping with their innovative work on computer vision using the Image Algebra framework. With funding from the US Department of Defense. One project's goal was the automated detection of land mines using multi-spectral imagery. An early predecessor of today's visual segmentation models. The project was incredibly successful despite relying on 2D convolution algorithms, without the benefit of modern visual AI models. My main job was C++ development.

A related computer vision project aimed at detecting water mines by removing distortion in images from the surface of the ocean.

Also worked on other research projects, including work by Dr. Panos Livadas on automated code analysis and refactoring tools that foreshadowed LLM-based coding tools like GitHub Copilot.

Also worked as an undergraduate teaching assistant for a class based on the classic Lisp textbook, The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.