Ryan Gallagher
Media,PA
Summary
Mechanical engineer by day, AI engineer by night. I design systems for Navy ships at Leidos and serve as the solo founder of SportsIQ, an agentic AI website for fantasy sports. I recently wrapped up a Master’s in AI and now I'm looking to fully pivot into AI research and development, especially in the agentic space. I enjoy building intelligent systems.
Overview
5
5
years of professional experience
Work History
Founder & Solo Developer
SportsIQ
12.2024 - Current
- Built an agentic sports analytics chat on FastAPI + LangGraph/LangChain integrating multi-provider LLMs (OpenAI, Gemini, Groq, xAI), tool calling, and real-time streaming.
- Designed a LangGraph graph (Researcher → Responder) with a Postgres checkpointer for durable per-thread memory; added a context-window manager for token counting, trimming, and summarization.
- Integrated web search and custom-built player/team statistics tools into the Researcher agent, enabling fact-gathering across live sports data and recent news.
- Built domain tools for fantasy football league analysis that reads fantasy league data from Redis (rosters, matchups, waivers, trades) with robust error handling and cache-key routing.
- Delivered a transparent UX: token-by-token output, and granular progress events mapped to each tool invocation.
- Prompt engineered the LLMs in the graph nodes to enforce strict roles: the Researcher gathers facts only (strict handoff token, tool-order policy with per-category limits, knowledge cutoffs, no prose); the Responder handles voice, formatting, and cutoffs to produce concise, league-aware answers.
Mechanical Engineer
Leidos
05.2020 - Current
- Design autonomous auxiliary systems for Navy/DARPA prototype vessels.
- Build digital models to optimize ship auxiliary/engine systems and guide performance improvements.
- Trained an object-detection model to catch common visual errors on engineering drawings.
- Prototyped a reinforcement-learning approach to rapidly iterate equipment layouts for shipboard spaces.
- Analyzed LPD-17 class ship data to show how modifications to the ship reduced engine operating time and fuel use.
- Support the Naval Surface Warfare Center on the DDG(X) test site; co-tech lead for auxiliary system design.
Education
Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence
Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA06-2025
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, PA01.2020
Bachelor of Science - Physics
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
West Chester, PA01.2018
Skills
- C
- Python
- HTML/CSS/JS
- NumPy
- PyTorch
- Pandas
- LangGraph/LangChain
- FastAPI
- Git
Timeline
Founder & Solo Developer
SportsIQ
12.2024 - Current
Mechanical Engineer
Leidos
05.2020 - Current
Master of Science - Artificial Intelligence
Drexel University
Bachelor of Science - Mechanical Engineering
Thomas Jefferson University
Bachelor of Science - Physics
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
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