Ryan Burgoyne

Email Address

ryan@spacecraftxr.com

Phone Number

(480) 310-9304

Location

Boulder, CO

LinkedIn Profile

linkedin.com/in/ryansburgoyne

Work Experience

• Company Name

  Skyglass

  Employment Dates

  November 2021—Present

  Title

  Founder

  Location

  Boulder, CO

  • Created Skyglass, a virtual production app enabling Hollywood-grade visual effects on iPhone using AI and Unreal Engine in the cloud (demo video).
  • Secured $700K in funding and graduated from Techstars NYC 2024.
  • Led a team of 3, scaling to 95K downloads and $6K MRR.
  • Integrated machine learning models for background removal, environment generation, and relighting.
  • Architected and implemented the full application stack, including:
    • iOS app:
      • Swift
      • SwiftUI
      • ARKit
      • WebRTC
      • Metal
    • Cloud render service:
      • Unreal Engine
      • C++
      • Pixar USD
      • Kubernetes
      • AWS
    • Web app:
      • Swift (Vapor)
      • HTML
      • Tailwind
      • AlpineJS

• Company Name

  Apple

  Employment Dates

  May 2015—October 2021

  Title

  Software Development Engineer

  Location

  Sunnyvale, CA

  • Helped kick off the Vision Pro project as one of the first engineers to come on board.
  • Co-invented the visionOS gaze-and-tap user interface; filed three patents.
  • Served as a technical leader on the Reality Composer team from first concept to successful launch, empowering millions of developers with an intuitive 3D design tool.

• Company Name

  Metaio

  Employment Dates

  January 2014—May 2015

  Title

  Research Engineer

  Location

  Plano, TX

  • Integrated novel depth-camera tracking and reconstruction research into the leading AR SDK used by more than 100K developers.
  • Worked with major brands to build AR-powered experiences.

Education

• University Name

  Arizona State University

  Graduation Date

  December 2013

  Degree

  B.S., Computer Science

  Location

  Tempe, AZ

  • Graduated summa cum laude with 3.9 GPA.
  • Capstone project: "Statistical Analysis Learning through Augmented Reality"

Skills

Programming Languages

• Swift
• C++
• JavaScript/TypeScript
• Python
• C#
• Objective-C

Frameworks and SDKs

• iOS
• SwiftUI
• ARKit
• Metal
• WebRTC
• WebGPU
• Unreal Engine
• Unity

Cloud and DevOps

• AWS
• Docker
• Kubernetes

Spoken and Signed Languages

• English (native)
• American Sign Language (fluent)
• Cambodian (fluent)
• Dutch (conversational)