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Ryan Roemer

Ryan Roemer

SVP, Technology & Open Source

Ryan Roemer is the SVP, Technology & Open Source at Nearform and was co-founder/CEO of Formidable (acquired by Nearform).

He builds agentic and AI systems, with a particular interest in open-weights, on-device, and in-browser AI, from vector search to inference to MCP and WebMCP. Ryan works with teams from startups up to Fortune 500s on AI-native engineering, application architecture, and open source.

Ryan is a former patent attorney and although it's been a long while since he put on his "lawyer" hat, he keeps a close eye on evolving open source and AI legal issues.

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Articles by Ryan

WebMCP: Turning web pages into tools for AI agents
Browser-based vector search: fast, private, and no backend required
Introducing llm-splitter — a fast, lightweight, text chunker for embeddings, LLMs, and more!
The awkward valley to ESM: Node.js, Victory, and D3
Getting Started with (and Surviving) Node.js ESM
trace-pkg: Package Node.js apps for AWS Lambda and beyond
Jetpack: trace your way to faster and smaller Serverless packages
Jetpack: multiple engines for your Serverless packaging and more!
Jetpack revisited: Even faster Serverless packaging and deploys
Jetpack: blazingly fast Serverless packaging and deploys
Locking down AWS Serverless applications, the right way
Finding and fixing duplicates in webpack with Inspectpack
Introducing Publish-Diff
Backbone.js with React Views
Making JavaScript Tests Fast, Easy, & Friendly

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