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Ryan Friedman
Ryan Friedman
Product Engineer
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 credibility
- -Defining and implementing automated data collection patterns
- -Hands-on coding 60-80% of time
Principal Software Engineer — Measurement Data Services
NI (Emerson Test & Measurement)
Deliberate return to hands-on technical work to deepen architecture skills and maintain technical credibility
- -Defining and implementing automated data collection patterns
- -Hands-on coding 60-80% of time
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
- -Replaced legacy dashboards with 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
Featured Project: Galligraphy
The most sophisticated Circular Gallifreyan generator. 10+ years of algorithmic refinement.
Galligraphy
The most sophisticated implementation of Sherman's Circular Gallifreyan writing system. Over a decade of algorithmic refinement since 2011.
- -Translates English text to Circular Gallifreyan visuals
- -Free design generator with $2.99 SVG exports
- -Print-on-demand products (mugs, posters, shirts)
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."