Ryan Flannery

Manager of Research Intelligence @ Bloomberg

Ryan Flannery is the Manager of Research Intelligence at Bloomberg LP, based in Brooklyn, New York.1 He has been in this role since November 2018, managing teams responsible for Bloomberg's core research product suite.1

Professional Experience

At Bloomberg, Ryan oversees products used daily by nearly 100,000 analysts globally to discover, refine, organize, and track ideas.1 His teams work on various aspects of the product, including:

User experience and front-end development
Search infrastructure management
Leveraging AI to improve content delivery and trend spotting

Ryan's teams utilize a range of technologies, including:

Open source tools
In-house technology stack
SOLR, HBase, and relational databases
Programming languages: Python, Groovy, C++, JavaScript

Background and Education

Ryan holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Cincinnati and has completed some graduate coursework towards a PhD at the same institution.2

Previous Roles

Before his current position, Ryan has held other roles at Bloomberg LP:

Engineer and Architect for Company Earnings & Estimates (2011-2012)
Responsible for core development and architecture of back-end and front-end systems

Open Source Contributions

Ryan has been an active open source developer from 2002 to 2011, creating and maintaining several projects1:

oxbar: A configurable X11 status bar for OpenBSD
vitunes: A command-line equivalent of iTunes with a curses interface
phpSymon: A PHP application for system administrators to view computer and network statistics

Teaching Experience

Ryan worked as a Computer Science Teacher and Teaching Assistant at the University of Cincinnati from September 2006 to December 2010.1 He taught various courses, including: