Ryan Campbell

Solutions Architect · UI / Data / AI

Systems that hold up — from the interface to the data behind it.

I'm Ryan Campbell, a solutions architect working across user interfaces, data platforms, and applied AI. I help teams cut through complexity and ship systems that are clear, dependable, and built to last.

ryan@ryancampbell.com

Expertise

Three disciplines, one job: making the whole system make sense.

01

User Interfaces

Front-end architecture, design systems, and product UI — mostly with Next.js and React. I care about interfaces that stay coherent as products grow — accessible, fast, and honest about complexity rather than hiding it in the wrong places.

  • Next.js & React architecture
  • Design systems
  • Accessibility & performance

02

Data

Data modeling, pipelines, and analytics platforms — from Spark jobs on Databricks to Postgres on Supabase. The goal is always the same: information people can trust, in shapes teams can actually build on, without heroics to keep it running.

  • Databricks & Spark
  • Data modeling & pipelines
  • Supabase & Postgres

03

Applied AI

LLM integrations, AI-assisted workflows, and the evaluation to know whether they work. This is the work I enjoy most — bringing AI into systems where it earns its place, and being comfortable saying when it does not.

  • LLM integration
  • AI-assisted workflows
  • Evaluation & guardrails

Approach

How I work

01

Start with the problem, not the stack

Technology choices come last. The first job is understanding what the business needs, who uses the system, and what "good" looks like in six months.

02

Design the seams

Most architecture is deciding where systems and teams meet. Clean boundaries — in APIs, in data contracts, in ownership — are what let everything else change safely.

03

Prototype early, decide with evidence

A working slice beats a slide deck. I would rather spend a week proving an approach than a quarter defending an assumption.

04

Ship simple, leave it maintainable

The best compliment a system can get is that the next team found it boring to take over. Simplicity is a feature you design in, not one you get for free.

Stack

Tools I reach for

Interfaces

  • Next.js
  • React
  • TypeScript
  • Tailwind CSS

Data

  • Databricks
  • Apache Spark
  • Supabase
  • PostgreSQL

AI

  • LLM integration
  • Agentic workflows
  • Evaluation

Platform

  • Vercel
  • Kubernetes

About

I've been writing software since I was a kid — it started with Perl scripts, and the habit never wore off. Since then I've worked across most of the stack: interfaces people touch, data systems underneath them, the platforms they run on, and lately the AI layers that connect it all.

That range is the job. Solutions architecture means being fluent enough in each discipline to design the whole — and knowing which details matter enough to sweat.

Contact

Working on something that needs to hold up?

I'm happy to talk through architecture reviews, new builds, or where AI genuinely fits in your product. Email is the best way to reach me.

ryan@ryancampbell.com