Ryan Yannelli

CTO & Co-Founder, Nextvisit AI

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15 years in AI/ML, health tech, and telecom. Lead engineer at Nextvisit, a VC-backed AI documentation platform used by 300+ behavioral health practices. Directs in-house development and external engineering partners across EHR integrations, compliance, and infrastructure. Stack: LLM integration, distributed systems, Laravel/Vue 3, and HIPAA-compliant infrastructure.

Chief Technology Officer

Nextvisit, Inc. · White Plains, NY

Oct 2021 — Present

AI clinical documentation platform for behavioral health.

  • Led engineering across the full stack: Laravel/PHP backend, Vue 3/Inertia.js frontend, AI/ML pipelines, and GCP/GKE infrastructure.
  • Built an LLM documentation engine on the Anthropic API that turns patient conversations into HIPAA-compliant SOAP, DAP, and BIRP notes in real time.
  • Built AriaMD, a Telnyx-based AI clinical agent for live call transcription, clinical summarization, and population health monitoring.
  • Built a Redis Streams relay on Laravel Reverb that decouples LLM token streaming from queue workers across multiple model providers.
  • Directed external engineering partners across REST API integrations with EHR platforms (Epic, Athena, Practice Fusion) and third-party clinical hardware vendors.
  • Led SOC 2, HIPAA, and ISO/IEC 42001 certification end to end, including external auditors and security consultants.
  • Ran production infrastructure for 300+ practices with no dedicated ops staff: deployment pipelines, Datadog observability, and incident response.
  • Published an open-source Laravel SDK for claim.md and a 14,000-record LLM fine-tuning dataset on HuggingFace.

Director of Operations

PointVoIP, LLC · Ronkonkoma, NY

May 2020 — Apr 2023

  • Directed operations staff across multi-site VoIP and data center environments; handled SIP trunking, call routing, and LCR for carrier-grade systems.
  • Built proactive monitoring and incident response workflows that cut unplanned downtime across distributed infrastructure.
  • Continued as Business Advisor (Apr 2023 — Mar 2025) post-transition.

Professional Services Engineer

LISS Technologies · Lake Success, NY

Oct 2018 — Mar 2020

  • Delivered managed IT services: VoIP deployments, Microsoft Exchange migrations, and Microsoft 365 implementations for enterprise clients.
  • Owned project delivery end to end, from scoping through production, and kept enterprise clients long-term.

Network Engineer

CSDNET · Bayport, NY

Jun 2013 — Oct 2018

  • Designed and maintained enterprise networks on Avaya and Nortel infrastructure across multiple client environments.
  • Owned incident response and monitoring that prevented business-impacting outages at client sites.