Ryan Walker
Co-Founder & CEO @ General Legal | Building the AI-native law firm for growing companies
Experience
Career
2026General Legal (YC26)
Co-founderCo-Founder & CEO · San Francisco, California, United States · 2026 – Present
2023Thomson Reuters
VP Technology, CoCounsel · United States · 2023 – 2025
2018Casetext, Part of Thomson Reuters
Chief Technology Officer · San Francisco · 2018 – 2023
2017Casetext, Part of Thomson Reuters
VP of Data Science · San Francisco · 2017 – 2018
2015Casetext, Part of Thomson Reuters
Data Scientist · Palo Alto · 2015 – 2017
2015Insight Data Science
Data Engineering Fellow · Palo Alto, California · 2015
- 2014
Fluential
Senior Software and Machine Learning Engineer · Sunnyvale, CA · 2014 – 2015
2012Blue Shield of California
Quantitative Marketing Analyst · San Francisco · 2012 – 2014
2007University of Kentucky
PhD student in Mathematics · Lexington, KY · 2007 – 2013
2011University of Wisconsin Milwaukee
Summer Research Assistant in Thermoacoustic Tomography · Milwaukee · 2011
Bio
Math PhD, software engineer, machine learning for legal. I've been in legal tech for over a decade and was the Chief Technology Officer for Casetext (YC13) which was acquired by Thomson Reuters in 2023.