We accelerate technology for early-stage companies and research labs in AI, informatics, biotech, and neuro.
Through advising, consulting, or project-based execution, we bring deep knowledge, technical rigor, and relentless problem solving while coordinating with your business priorities and building alignment across your team.
> who-we-are
Based in Los Angeles, founded and operated by Ryan Cabeen, PhD, who brings 15+ years of technical experience translating research into solutions and building robust technical operations:
- Technical Leader, Software & ML Engineer, Scientist, and Mentor
- CTO at Blueprint Bryan Johnson (2024-2025)
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer at AI startups (2022-2024)
- Research Professor at Keck School of Medicine of USC (2021-2022)
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Imaging Scientist Awardee (2021-2022)
- Computer Science PhD from Brown University
- Engineering & Applied Science BSc from Caltech
> what-we-do
We work at any stage of the technical workstream — early research & development, prototyping, minimal viable products, scaling, and refinement & optimization. Our areas of expertise include:
technical-leadership
Engineering management experience building teams, setting technical strategy, guiding product development, and aligning engineering execution with business objectives.
research-product-pipeline
Translating research into commercial products and applications. Experience building consumer apps, software platforms, and navigating regulatory & compliance.
ai+machine-learning
Deep expertise in computer vision, biomedical AI, and LLMs. Experience with everything from research prototypes to production systems, including MLOps and model deployment.
data+informatics
End-to-end data science including engineering pipelines, warehouse architecture, advanced statistical modeling, and interactive dashboards to support data-driven decision making.
system-design+devops
Architecting systems with cloud infrastructure, AWS with distributed databases, message queues, caching layers, and IaC. Experience with high-traffic web and mobile applications.
mri-technology
Neuroimaging expertise spanning image acquisition, analysis workflows, and visualization. Deep knowledge of computational methods for diffusion MRI.
digital-pathology
Comprehensive skills in building digital pathology workflows for cancer and neuroscience, using self-supervised learning and addressing inter-scanner variability.
neuroscience+biomedicine
Biomedical research across brain disorders including dementia, stroke, traumatic brain injury, epilepsy, as well as normal aging and neurodevelopment.
> contact-us
Want to talk? Email us at hello@saturnatech.com or below: