Ryan Appleby

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ABOUT RYAN APPLEBY

I spent the first fifteen years of my career building and implementing systems at places like Goldman Sachs, Rothschild, and Barclays.Then I moved into customer-facing architecture and consulting roles - but I never stopped building. I still write Python, I still dig into technical problems, and I still find it hard to advise on something I haven\'t actually done myself.Now I\'m a Staff Solutions Architect at GitLab, serving as an AI Subject Matter Expert for EMEA enterprise accounts. That means helping large regulated organisations figure out how to adopt AI without terrifying their security teams - something my financial services background turns out to be rather useful for.I spoke recently at FinTech Connect London on \"From Vibe Coding to Vibe Engineering\"- essentially, why the speed that AI gives you is worthless without the discipline to use it properly. It\'s a topic I care about.