We accelerate technology for early-stage companies and research labs in AI, informatics, biotech, and neuro.
We bring deep knowledge, technical rigor, and relentless problem solving to all projects while coordinating with your business priorities and building alignment across your team. We thrive when faced with your hardest technical challenges, when timelines are tight, and when the risks and stakes are high.
> who-we-are
Based in Los Angeles, founded and operated by Ryan Cabeen, PhD, bringing 15+ years of technical excellence translating research into solutions and building robust technical operations:
- Technical Leader, Software & ML Engineer, Scientist, and Mentor
- CTO at Blueprint Bryan Johnson
- Staff Machine Learning Engineer at AI startups
- Research Professor at Keck School of Medicine of USC
- Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Imaging Scientist Awardee
- 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
Neuroimaging 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: