Engineer / Founder / Researcher

Ricardo Ledan is a New York–based engineer and the founder of studio1804, an independent AI research lab focused on multilingual AI, distributed infrastructure, and community-owned technology.

His work includes archival digitization, diaspora cooperative platforms, and humanitarian technology, with an emphasis on building systems that communities can own, audit, and operate themselves. His technical work spans full-stack engineering, self-hosted LLM inference, multi-agent systems, graph databases, blockchain-based data provenance, infrastructure security research, and open-source developer tooling.

He previously spent five years at Deloitte developing production systems and advanced prototypes for Fortune 500 and U.S. federal clients, including intelligence platforms, regulatory compliance systems, and analytics infrastructure. Earlier, he built high-traffic consumer products at Bankrate.com.

Select Projects

  • rasin.ai Open research platform that makes centuries of historical documents searchable across four languages.
  • harombe Open-source framework for running autonomous AI agents across your own hardware. Turns laptops, workstations, and servers into a distributed agent cluster with container-isolated tool execution and persistent memory.
  • mumblerap.ai AI coaching platform that treats rap as a measurable, improvable skill. Real-time feedback on rhythm, timing, and delivery.

Research

Writing