Ryan Tate
Technical Executive & Entrepreneur Seattle, Washington
Summary
Technical executive with 10+ years founding companies, leading engineering organizations, and architecting systems at scale. Domain expertise in digital identity, cryptographic protocols, and financial infrastructure. Track record delivering government-scale implementations serving millions of users.
Experience
SpruceID — Staff Software Engineer
2024 – Present | Seattle, WA
Engineering lead for digital identity systems deployed by state governments. Architecting cross-platform Rust SDKs and standards-compliant mobile credentials with TSA approval for airport authentication.
Emergent Financial, LLC — Founder
2018 – Present | Seattle, WA
Founded fintech consulting practice. Developed cryptographic transaction systems resulting in granted U.S. Patent US18/082,630. Created open-source tooling for financial messaging standards.
Knox Networks — Chief Technology Officer
2022 | Remote
Led engineering team of 15 building central bank digital currency infrastructure for monetary authorities. Architected low-latency, high-throughput systems in Rust.
Field Responder, Inc. — Co-Founder / CTO
2020 – 2024 | Tacoma, WA
Co-founded emergency response technology company. Architected GIS management software and mesh network routing protocols. Served on board through 2024.
Token, Inc. — VP of Engineering
2018 – 2019 | Remote
Led engineering team building stablecoin infrastructure. Successfully spun out team into M10 Networks.
M10 Networks — Sr. Software Engineer
2019 – 2020 | Remote
Architected distributed payment systems for monetary authorities and commercial banks.
ConsenSys — Software Engineer
2016 – 2017 | Remote
Early enterprise blockchain contributor. Developed smart contract systems for Fortune 50 companies with Enterprise Ethereum Alliance.
Education
University of Puget Sound — B.A. International Political Economy, B.A. International Business & Finance (2011)
East China Normal University / Tunghai University — Advanced Chinese Language (2009-2010)
Other
2020 Congressional Candidate — Washington’s 10th District. Platform focused on financial technology policy and Federal Reserve modernization.
Languages — English (native), Mandarin Chinese (professional), Spanish (limited)