RP Ryan Pliske

Staff Software Engineer · Greater St. Louis

I design and ship
real-world apps.

I'm Ryan Pliske — a Staff Software Engineer building across mobile, backend, and platform. I take products from a blank page to the App Store and the open web: native iOS, Flutter & React Native, and the TypeScript services behind them.

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Selected work

Things I've built and shipped.

Kairo

kairo.faith ↗

A Catholic AI you can trust.

Ask questions about faith, prayer, morality, and Church teaching and get answers grounded in source documents — the Catechism, Canon Law, and the GIRM — with a citation for every claim. Built on strict retrieval-augmented generation so it never makes doctrine up.

  • Astro
  • Hono
  • Cloud Run
  • Firebase
  • Claude
  • Embeddings (RAG)

Honey Bun

honeybun.family ↗

Baby tracking for new parents.

A warm, fast iOS app for the blur of early parenthood — log feedings, sleep, diapers, and milestones, synced across devices. Native SwiftUI on the front, a lean cloud backend behind it.

  • SwiftUI
  • iOS
  • Android
  • Firebase
  • Hono
  • Cloud Run
  • Astro

About

Engineer, builder, problem-solver.

Ryan Pliske

I started in native iOS — Swift and Objective-C — and grew into a full-stack engineer who works across mobile, backend, and platform. Today I lead enterprise-scale development at Kenect: authentication libraries, code-generation tooling, and the Spring Boot services that power real-time messaging and notifications.

On my own time I design and ship complete products — Kairo, a citation-grounded Catholic AI, and Honey Bun, a baby-tracking app for new parents. I care about software that feels fast, looks considered, and earns trust.

Experience

  1. 2025 — Present

    Staff Software Engineer

    Kenect

    Leading enterprise-scale work across mobile, backend, and platform. Architected AuthKit (Flutter / React Native) with MFA and recovery, built the auto-generated KenectClient API library, and led core Auth, Messaging, and Notification services on Spring Boot.

  2. 2021 — 2025

    Senior Mobile Software Engineer

    Kenect

    React Native and Flutter development across the Kenect mobile apps, plus platform tooling — OpenAPI generators, Terraform modules, and tracing/logging.

  3. 2015 — 2021

    Senior Mobile Software Engineer

    Bayer Crop Science (Monsanto)

    Native iOS in Swift & Objective-C and React Native, with Node.js / TypeScript APIs and AWS DevOps. Earned two Pillar Awards — for customer support and for teaching iOS to LaunchCode students.

  4. 2018 — 2019

    iOS Lead Instructor

    LaunchCode

    Built and taught the iOS curriculum for LaunchCode's programming course.

Education

  1. 2009 — 2014

    University of Missouri–Columbia

    B.S. Computer Science · Minor in Mathematics

  2. 2007 — 2008

    Washington University in St. Louis

    Biomedical / Medical Engineering

Tools I reach for

  • Flutter / Dart
  • React Native
  • Swift / SwiftUI
  • Java / Spring Boot
  • TypeScript / Node
  • JavaScript / React
  • iOS
  • Firebase
  • AWS
  • Microservices
  • REST / OpenAPI
  • CI/CD

Let's build something.

Open to interesting work and conversations. The fastest way to reach me is email.

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