Ryan Yannelli

I started building websites at 12 and registered a business around it in 2009. It was small, most of the work was bad, and I was invoicing for it at 12.

Networks and operations

At 16 I was a network engineer at CSDNET, running infrastructure for hospitals and schools. From 2018 to 2020 I was a professional services engineer at LISS Technologies, doing VoIP rollouts, Exchange migrations, and M365 deployments through their nSpeak subsidiary. In 2020 I moved to PointVoIP as director of operations: data centers, engineering teams, and the infrastructure under a telecom service. I stayed on as a business advisor there through 2025.

Nextvisit AI

In 2021 I teamed up with Dr. Faisal Rafiq, a practicing psychiatrist who had spent most of his career complaining about documentation. We built the thing he wanted: software that writes the clinical note during the visit instead of after it. It handles ambient transcription, note generation, and the billing path behind them for behavioral health practices. In 2025 we went through the LAUNCH Accelerator (Cohort LA35). There is a longer write-up on the Nextvisit page.

Lighthouse Legal

I am Founding AI Engineer at Lighthouse Legal, alongside founder Ravi Jayanthi. AI voice agents for law-firm intake, first for personal injury: they answer the line, screen callers against the firm's criteria, and escalate the ones that qualify. The product is at lighthouselegal.ai, and there is a write-up on the Lighthouse page.

What I work on now

I still do this: get a version into production, then keep the tolerances tight. My stack moved with the work. I started in PHP and JavaScript, added TypeScript and Vue, and now spend most of my time on LLMs and speech models. The open source is mostly Laravel and PHP SDKs, a couple of Vue components, and some datasets on Hugging Face: things I needed once, cleaned up enough to publish. The code is on the work page and the posts are on the writing page.