Ryan RoemerRyan Roemer is the Director of Engineering at Curiosity Media, a language learning startup, where he manages technical operations and leads the development team. He develops (and tests) full-stack JavaScript applications and backend Node.js services.Ryan also works with data mining, cloud architectures, and problems relating to large scale distributed systems.Ryan previously was an engineer in the cloud computing storage group of Microsoft's Azure platform and most recently developed the search and cloud architecture for IP Street, a patent data mining startup. Outside of engineering, Ryan is a registered patent attorney (inactive), although it has been a long time since he put on his “lawyer” hat.You can find him online at http://loose-bits.com and on Twitter at https://twitter.com/ryan_roemer. Read More Read Less