Ryan Collins

Ryan Collins

I'm a Computer Science junior at San Diego State University, graduating May 2028. I build automation and AI systems end to end.

Seeking a Summer 2027 Internship Resume (PDF) →

Experience

Founder & Automation Engineer - YouTube Shorts Network
June 2025 - Present
  • Built the Python pipeline that runs two Shorts channels end to end - ideation, rendering, upload and scheduling - so publishing happens without me in the loop.
  • Wrote a Go CLI on top of it that tracks analytics and flags performance changes automatically, and iterate on format and hooks against what it reports.
  • Over 2 billion views and 100K+ subscribers across the two channels.
Co-Founder - 1ThingGreen
April 2023 - Present
  • Co-invented the Eco-Sorter, U.S. Patent No. 12,275,582.
  • Owned the product from CAD prototype through a 5,000-unit manufacturing run and launch on Etsy and 1thinggreen.com.
AI Automation Intern - Basic American Foods
June 2026 - Present
  • Automated the commercial insights deck, turning hand-pulled reports into one live view of sales and performance for the business team.
  • Built Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable automations for the finance team, saving team hours of manual work per week.
  • Automated safety reporting across four manufacturing plants and built a company-wide searchable data catalog.
Programming Instructor - Hackingtons
June 2022 - August 2024
  • Taught Python, C#, Unity, and HTML/CSS/JS, with one-on-one code reviews and debugging.

Projects

CourseGrid Next.js - Postgres - Stripe

SDSU course planner. Paid plan adds AI-drafted schedule recommendations. Live, SDSU students use it. Google OAuth restricted to sdsu.edu. Stripe billing.

coursegrid.io →
YouTube Analytics CLI Go - SQLite

Go CLI that tracks my YouTube channels' analytics and flags performance changes automatically.

github.com/RyanCollinsAI →
Slack Agent Platform Node - Vercel - E2B

My own take on Anthropic's Claude Tag: a Slack agent I tag to build, test, and run my projects. Also runs CI/CD on my projects.

Skills

Agentic Engineering

Multi-agent orchestration, agent harnesses and hooks, evals, tool and MCP (Model Context Protocol) integration, context engineering, prompt engineering, systems design

AI Tools

Claude Code, Codex CLI, Anthropic API, MCP, Playwright automation

Coding

Python, TypeScript, FastAPI, Next.js, PostgreSQL

Also

FFmpeg, yt-dlp, Go, SQLite, Docker, Git, n8n

Education

San Diego State University
B.S. Computer Science, Business Minor - Aug 2024 - May 2028 (expected) - GPA 3.8
Coursework: Data Structures, Computer Architecture, Programming Languages, Linear Algebra
Diablo Valley College
Certificate of Achievement, Computer Science - 2022 - 2023

Awards

Dean's Honor List - Alpha Sigma Phi, Founding Father - Jack Hume Scholarship 2026 - Garner-Stocker Taco Mayo Scholarship (OCCF)