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Ryan Friedman
Ryan Friedman
Product Manager
20 years building developer platforms, test automation systems, and enterprise software.
Career Timeline
Principal Software Engineer — Measurement Data Services
NI (Emerson Test & Measurement)
Deliberate return to hands-on technical work to deepen architecture skills and maintain technical expertise
- -Defining and implementing automated data collection patterns
- -Hands-on technical work while guiding architectural decisions
Principal Software Engineer — Measurement Data Services
NI (Emerson Test & Measurement)
Deliberate return to hands-on technical work to deepen architecture skills and maintain technical expertise
- -Defining and implementing automated data collection patterns
- -Hands-on technical work while guiding architectural decisions
Principal Product Manager — InstrumentStudio
NI (Emerson Test & Measurement)
Led product strategy for NI's desktop instrument workflow platform
- -Spearheaded NI's first desktop gRPC ecosystem
- -Launched InstrumentStudio Professional
Principal Product Manager — SystemLink
NI (Emerson Test & Measurement)
Led product strategy for enterprise test data management platform
- -Upgraded legacy proprietary dashboards to Grafana, contributing to multi-million-dollar account win
- -Migrated to PostgreSQL, reducing query times by 50%
Senior Software Architect
NI (Emerson Test & Measurement)
Built test frameworks and production validation infrastructure
- -Created test frameworks reducing development time by 40%
- -Developed production test framework validating billions in hardware
Staff Software Engineer
NI (Emerson Test & Measurement)
Image acquisition development and driver project management
- -Developed image acquisition kernel and drivers
- -Shipped 8 driver releases over 4 years as project manager
What Colleagues Say
"I would hire Ryan in a second to fix any wayward project, but especially to make a product line thrive."
"While others might get stuck in challenges, he quickly assesses what's within his control and takes decisive action."
Side Projects
Circular Gallifreyan Design Platform
The most sophisticated automated Circular Gallifreyan generator. 10+ years of algorithmic refinement.